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MY FATHER
ACHILLES J. VAWTER
THE MEMORY OF
WHOSE WISDOM AND GENTLENESS
HAS EVER
BEEN A SOURCE OF
COMFORT AND STRENGTH
THIS VOLUME
IS AFFECTIONATELY
DEDICATED
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Achilles J. Vawter
THE
VAWTER FAMILY
IN AMERICA
WITH
THE ALLIED
FAMILIES OF
BRANHAM
CRAWFORD
WISE
LEWIS
STRIBLING
GLOVER
MONCRIEF
BY
GRACE VAWTER BICKNELL
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INDIANAPOLIS
THE HOLLENBECK PRESS
1905
V>
Copyright 1905
By Grace Vawter Bicknell
LIBRARY etOONQRCM
Ont CoDy RecrWM
JAN 22 1906
Copyrlffrt Entry
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A PERSONAL WORD
My father had some old records in his possession which came
to him from his father. These were yellow with age and falling
to pieces. In another generation they would probably have been
lost. In looking these records over the thought came to me:
"How can these be saved?" It was then that the present history
was begun, with no hope or prospect of pecuniary reward, but
with the desire of preserving to our children the records of their
fathers.
In a work of this character must necessarily occur many
omissions and inaccuracies, for which indulgence is asked. It
will be observed that more space and fuller details are given in
regard to certain persons than to others. This is due chiefly to
a desire to bring into prominence some of those strong men whose
characteristics have given direction and distinctiveness to suc-
ceeding generations of the family. It is due in part also to the
fact that some of the pioneers took pleasure in writing their ex-
periences in diaries or in publishing reminiscences in the local
newspapers of their day, and these records have been in part
preserved and freely drawn upon in this history. These diaries
and recollections are doubly valuable because they not only re-
veal the character of the men who wrote them, but they also con-
vey a vivid picture of the manner of life and customs and hard-
ships of the people among whom they lived.
Of those now living some wrote freely in answer to inquiries,
taking great interest in the progress of the history; others sent
the briefest facts. Where lines have not been followed out it
is because knowledge concerning them could not be obtained, but
VI
A PERSONAL WORD
all branches have been given as fully as the available information
made possible. Five years have been spent in correspondence with
the representatives of the various branches wherever a trace of
them could be obtained. Visits have been made to the older mem-
bers of the family,, national and state archives have been searched,
and information has been gathered from every possible source.
The first impetus to this work, aside from the papers left by my
father, was given me by Edwin J. Vawter, of Ocean Park, Cali-
fornia, who had been carefully gathering and preserving informa-
tion for years. The discovery of the coat of arms in that branch
of the Valletort family from which we are directly descended is
due to Miss Emma Vawter, of Santa Monica, California. The
first trace of the family of Richard Vawter, son of Philemon, was
found after great effort by Charles P. Vawter, of Lexington,
Kentucky. Milton Vawter, of North Madison, Indiana, who is
an authority on the family history, has given much valuable in-
formation.
So many others have been actively helpful in the collection of
this great body of material from every part of the country that
I despair of expressing to them individually my gratitude and
appreciation. But I am consoled in this omission by the certainty
that every one of them will feel amply repaid by the knowledge
that he or she has contributed to the completeness and accuracy of
this record.
The Vawter family of the early days was of a deeply religious
nature. The members in Virginia were Episcopalians. Jesse and
Philemon united with the Baptist Church. Jesse himself and a
number of his descendants have been Baptist ministers. Philemon
was also a Baptist minister. Beverly, a son of Philemon, became
a Christian minister and in his line are many ministers of the
same denomination.
David, the father of Jesse and Philemon, was a soldier in the
A PERSONA lNv'ORD
Vll
Revolutionary War. Jesse also enlisted and served a few months.
Some reports, not fully authenticated, state that Philemon en-
listed, but his extreme youth at that time lends color to doubt
upon this point. Many of the descendants of Jesse and Philemon
served in the Civil War, the descendants of Jesse being entirely
on the Union side, and of those of Philemon some were in the
Union and some members of the Confederate Army. The family
was generally strongly opposed to slavery, but a few were slave-
holders.
The Vawters have not, as a rule, been prominent in public life,
though se\-eral of them have been influential members of the In-
diana legislature.
The descendants of Jesse Vawter number one thousand five
hundred and twenty-seven direct and five hundred and thirty-five
related by marriage into the direct line. The descendants of Phile-
mon number one thousand sixty-six direct and three hundred
and fifty related by marriage into the direct line. The number of
children of Jesse and Philemon were eighteen ; grandchildren, one
hundred and forty-three ; great-grandchildren, five hundred and
sixty-nine ; great-great-grandchildren, one thousand one hundred
and sixty-three; great-great-great-grandchildren to this date, six
hundred and ninety-three. The total number named in this rec-
ord, including the families of Edward and Russell Vawter, which
are not at all complete, are two thousand seven hundred and
eighty-two direct and nine hundred and forty by marriage into
the direct line, making three thousand seven hundred and twenty-
two in all.
Fresh from a close and extended study of the history of this
family, the conviction is strong within me that it tells the simple
story of sturdy courage, honest living, citizenship unpretentious,
yet shrinking not from the citizen's responsibilities ; the story of
very human endurance, not without faults, but measuring up
viii A PERSONAL WORD
fully to the hope expressed by one of the living members of the
family, who, with the wisdom of almost four-score years, wrote :
"You are putting great labor on that tree. It must be large,
with many branches heavy with fruitage. But how about the
fruit? Would all pass inspection as first or second, or even third
class? In so large a tree, so old and of such wide-spreading
branches, there must be some knotty, some bad at core, some
worm-eaten. Let us be glad if in the main it is marketable."
Grace Vawter Bicknell.
Chicago, May i, 1905.
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ABBREVIATIONS
b.=born
d.=dead
d. s.=died single ♦
m.:=married
Name in parenthesis indicates maiden name, except
in index, where it indicates name of father
VALLETORT
The Name from Which Vawter was Derived
NAME
In the seventeenth century, about the year 1685, three brothers
came from England, probably from near Plymouth, to Virginia.
These men were John, Bartholomew and Angus Vawter. Some
members of the family think that the name has come from the
French name Vautier or Vautie. While this name sounds or
rather looks more like Vawter, it is probable that our name has
come from the French name Valletort, which is pronounced
Va-ye-tor.
In the "Virginia Cousins," by C. Brown Goode, p. 460. we find
tlie following :
"The barony of Harberton, granted to the family of de Val-
letort in the time of King Henry I, became extinct about 1307.
The name has since become known as Vaulter." (It is also given
in English records as Vaw^ter. )
From 1 100-1300, the line of descent in the Valletort family, as
given in the "Virginia Cousins," is as follows :
1. Reginald de Valletort, Lord of Harberton.
2. Roger de Valletort. living in 1108.
3. Ralphe de Valletort, living in 1168.
4. Joel de Valletort. of Tawton, married Emma, daughter of
Sir William Botreaux.
5. Sir Philip de Valletort, living in 1230.
6. Sir John de Valletort, -living in 1250.
Lord Harberton, the first Valletort of whom we have a record,
lived in England in the time of Henry I. The name began to
change in spelling about 1300 and, in 1637, we have a record in
Plymouth, England, which gives the name as Vaw^ter and shows
that the name had been Valletort. It seems that at that time the
name was sometimes written Vawter and sometimes Vaulter.
When the Vawter brothers first came to Virginia, the name
2 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
was usually written Vawlter or Vaulter (see reminiscences of Col.
John Vawter, p. 24. The 1 was afterwards dropped and the
name was variously written as Vauter, Vauters (see revolution-
ary war record of David Vauters, p. 8), Vaughter (see mar-
riage license granted Jesse Vawter, foot note, p. 11), and Vawter.
The descendants of John, Bartholomew and Angus Vawter now,
we believe, uniformly spell the name V-a-w-t-e-r.
In a book, entitled "The Plymouth Armada Heroes," by Mary
W. S. Hawkins, is this account :
"In 1544, William Hawkins purchased the Manor of Sutton
Valletort or Vawter of Sir Hugh Pollard for (1000) one thou-
sand marks."
In the genealogical table of the Hawkins family, same book,
the above William Hawkins is designated as the Lord of the
Manor of Valletort. It appears, p. 162, that the manor was sold
in the year 1637-8 by the grandson of Sir John to the city of
Plymouth. In the records (Received Accounts), there appears
this : "Item : for a present given Mr. Risdon to procure out of
his hands such writings as concerned Vauter's Fee, lately bought
by the town of Mr. John Hawkyns, and a man and two horses
two journeys to fetch said writings."
"It is easy to see," said General Hawkins of Indianapolis, In-
diana, "how Valletort could be corrupted into Vauter or Vawter.
The double 1 being mouille and the final t not pronounced. As it
recjuired two horses two journeys to carry the load of records
pertaining to the property, it is probable that they go back very
far and contain valuable Valletort (Vawter) history."
The coat of arms which belonged to this branch of the Valle-
tort or Vawter family is described in the "Virginia Cousins" as
follows :
"Arms : Gules three bends, argent, on a border sable, ten
plates, or : or three bends gules within a border sable, bezanty."
In an article in the Encyclopedia Britannica on "Plymouth" we
find the following paragraph : "In Domesday, Sutton Manor oc-
curs as Sutone and afterwards, it was divided into the town of
Sutton Prior, the hamlet of Sutton Valletort and the tithing of
Sutton Ralphe — a part of it having been granted to the Norman
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 3
family of Valletort, while the greater part belonged to the priory
of Plymouth."
Judging from the evidence before us. our ancestors were of
Norman origin and came to this country from near Plymouth,
England, about the year 1685.
EARLY VAWTERS IN AMERICA
(1665). I. /o/?;;, Bartholomew, Angus.
(1691). 2. John, son of John/ married a Beverly (prob-
ably).
Children: Bartholomew, Angus, Richard,
Beverly, David, Margaret, Winifred.
(1718). 3. Beverly, son of John,' married .
Children: Beverly, a daughter, Alpha,
Nancy, Anne.
(1720). 3. David, son of John,- married Mary Rucker.
Children: Jesse, Philemon, William, Wini-
fred, Margaret, Mary.
(1755)- 4- J^sse, son of David, ^ married Elizabeth Watts,
daughter of John and Sarah (Barnett) Watts.
Children : John, William, James, Frances,
Mary, Sarah, Julia, Achilles, Ann.
(1762). 4. Philemon, son of David, ^ married Anne Vawter,
daughter of Beverly.
Children : Richard, Elliott, Frances, Nancy,
Jesse, Beverly, Lucy, Elizabeth, David.
2. Edzvard, son of John, Bartholomew or Angus (it
is not certain which ) .
Children : William and others.
3. William, son of Edward," married Anne Ballard.
Children : William and others.
(1765). 4. William, son of William,^ married Margaret
Henderson.
Children : Elizabeth, John Henderson, Anne,
Jean, Mary, Elliott, James.
*The dates of birth of John,' John,^ and Beverly' Vawter, given above, are
approximate dates only.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 5
(1800). 5. /o/iw H^^icf^^ow, son of William,* married Clara
S. Peck.
Children : John William, Elizabeth Mary,
Margaret Anne, Louis Addison, James
Elliott, Charles E., Allen Henderson, Ma-
tilda Ellen, Sarah Josephine, Joseph Sny-
der, Clara Virginia, Henry Alexander,
George W.
THE EARLY VAWTERS
This record begins with John/^ Bartholomew and Angus Vaw-
ter, who came to Virginia from England (probably from near
Plymouth) about the year 1685. We are descended from John.
Nothing is known of the first John, except that he had children
and one of them was named John. Of this second John, we find
in an old Virginia record (a copy of which is in the William and
Mary Quarterly, vol. 5, p. 90) that, in 1737, John Vawter was
appointed administrator of the estate of James Jamieson of Essex
county, Virginia. There was also an Edward in the second gen-
eration, but it is not certain whether he was the son of John, Bar-
tholomew or Angus.
John, the second, was married, probably to a Beverly. The
Beverlys were famous in the early times in Virginia. Robert
Beverly wrote a history of Virginia in 1705, which was published
in England in 1722. It is a very rare and valuable work now,
one of the original copies in the Newberry Library at Chicago
being valued at many hundreds of dollars. Robert Beverly lived
in Essex county, Virginia. There are also other noted Beverlys
who are mentioned in histories of Virginia. There are sketches
of the Beverly family in the book "Lee of Virginia," by Edmund
Jennings Lee, and in the bound volumes of the William and Mary
Quarterly of Virginia.
The probability of the wife of the second John having been a
Beverly comes from the fact that one of her sons was named
Beverly, and it was then, as now, a common thing for a son to
be given the family name of his mother. The name Beverly runs
through all branches of the family and this seems to have been
its first appearance.
*In the Virginia Historical Magazine, vol. 7, p. 300, is a copy of an old Vir-
ginia record which gives the date of inventory or probate of will of Bartholo-
mew Vawter in Essex county, in 1717, which shows that Bartholomew, the first,
died in 1717. In a list of things appraised is a "parcel of old books at 15s."
/
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 7
The children of John, the second, were : Bartholomew, Angus,
Richard, Beverly, David (born in 1720) , Margaret and Winifred.
Beverly, son of John second, married .
Children :
1. Beverly, killed in the Revolutionary War.
2. , who married Mr. Hill.
*3. Alpha, who married Robert Shelton. Their children
were : Smedley, who married his cousin, Melinda White.
4. Nancy, who married a Wilhite. Children were:
Nancy, Melinda, Ely, Elliott, Anne. Nancy married, second, a
Mr. Hawkins.
5. Anne, who married her cousin Philemon Vawter.
David, son of John, the second, was married to Mary Rucker
in Culpeper county, Virginia. It is believed by some of the
family that the wife of David Vawter was Mary Beverly and not
Mary Rucker. Our authority for believing the name to be Rucker
is that John Vawter, a grandson of David and Mary, in an ac-
count of his life, said that the maiden name of his grandmother
was Mary Rucker and that, after the death of David Vawter, she
married a Rentfrow (see p. 25). The name of Beverly seems to
have come into the family back of David, as one of David's
brothers was named Beverly.
Little is known of David Vawter, except that he was born in
1720; was an Episcopalian; served in the Revolutionary War;
lived in Culpeper county, Virginia, and had six children. That
David Vawter was in the Revolutionary War is shown by the
following, which was copied from the Virginia Magazine of His-
tory and Biography (1893- 1894).
"A Muster Roll of Captain Ambrose Madison's Company of
Foot in the Regiment of Volunteer Guards at the Barracks in
Albemarle county, where Francis Taylor, Esq., is Commander to
June I, 1779.
"Privates.
■ "David Vawter, enlisted January 17, 1779. Discharged June
I- I779-"
David Vawter lived in Culpeper county and enlisted in Albe-
*In Culpeper county records the date of this marriage is given as 1790.
8 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
marie county, which is the adjoining county. Culpeper county at
that time inckided what is now known as Madison andrJOrange-
counties. It was in the part now called Orange county that David
Vawter lived.
A communication received from the Military Secretary of the
War Department at Washington says : "The name David Vawter,
nor the name Jesse Vawter has been found on the rolls in this
office. It is shown by the records, however, that one David Vau-
fers served as a private in Captain John Camp's Company in the
First Virginia State Regiment, commanded by Colonel George
Gibson. He enlisted March i, 1777, to serve three years, and his
name last appears on the company muster roll for February, 1778.
The date of his separation from the service is not stated."
There is no doubt but this is the same David Vawter, as many
of the Vawters at that time spelled the name V-a-u-t-e-r. Even
if the name had been given as V-a-w-t-e-r, it might have easily
been written down as V-a-u-t-e-r-s. The name is often called
Vauters to this day, by those who do not know the spelling.
The time of the second enlistment (which was mentioned first)
does not at all overlap the time of the first, and both together do
not quite fill out the time for which the first enlistment was made.
The children of David and Mary (Rucker) Vawter were:
Jesse, Philemon, William, Winifred, Margaret and Mary.
The descendants of Jesse and Philemon will be given later.
William Vawter, son of David, was married and had a son,
Lewis, who lived in North Carolina. It is not known where Wil-
liam Vawter lived. It may have been that he came to Kentucky
later than Jesse and Philemon. In the records of Fayette county
are found these items :
"ist. William Vawter and Mary, his wife, sold a tract (169
acres) of land in Jessamine county, Kentucky, in 1803.
"2d. William Vawter and his wife, Mary, sold five hundred
acres in Campbell county, Kentucky, in 1805.
"3d. William Vawter and his wife, Mary, sold 1000 acres in
*W. G. Stanard, the Corresponding Secretary and Librarian of the Virginia
Historical Society of Richmond, Virginia, will, for a consideration, give a cer-
tified statement of the record of David Vawter.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA Q
Gallatin county, Kentucky, in 1809. They lived at that time in
Woodford county, Kentucky."
Philemon Vawter lived in Woodford county, Kentucky, and
Elliott Vawter, son of Philemon, lived at one time in Gallatin
county, Kentucky. This William Vawter, if not a brother of Jesse
and Philemon, must have been closely related.
A daughter of David Vawter married Achilles Stapp. Their
children were Ely, Milton, Nancy and Mary, all of whom married
Branhams. Achilles Stapp and family lived near Lexington, Ken-
tucky.
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JESSE VAWTER
Jesse Vawter was born in Culpeper county, Virginia, December
I, 1755. His parents were Episcopalians and he was sprinkled in
infancy and his name enrolled on the church record. He was
married to Elizabeth Watts, the daughter of John and Sallie
(Barnett) Watts, on March 29, 1781. Elizabeth Watts was born
December 30, 1762. Nine children were born to them: John,
William, James, Frances, Mary, Sarah, Julia, Achilles and Ann.
Jesse Vawter was, in his early manhood, apprenticed by his
father to a mechanic ; was a soldier in the Revolutionary War
for a short period; was baptized in a Baptist Church (Rapidan)
in Culpeper county, Virginia, October, 1774.
About the year 1782 Jesse Vawter, with his wife and infant
son John, moved from Virginia to the Holston river country,
which is near where the three states, Virginia, North Carolina
and Tennessee, now join. Their twin sons, William and James,
were born there. In 1785 Jesse, with his wife and four children,
returned to Virginia for a visit. They left William, one of the
twins, there, with his maternal grandparents. In 1787 Jesse
visited Kentucky and decided to move there. He and his wife,
with the infant Sarah, went for a farewell visit to Virginia in
1789, and in 1790 the family removed to Kentucky. On the way
they passed the Crab Orchard country, old Milford Court House,
stopping over night with Joseph Delaney, where Richmond, Ken-
tucky, now is, crossing the Kentucky river, passing through Lex-
ington, Kentucky, and arriving at Achilles Stapp's September 22,
1790. Jesse Vawter leased a farm from Hugh Shannon for five
years from the fall of 1790. In 1795 he moved to Scott county,
Kentucky, and settled on his own farm on the north side of the
North Elkhorn river, three or four miles from the forks of the
Note. — In Culpeper county records is the following : "Jesse Vaughter
married to Elizabeth Watts, March 29, 1781."
12 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
two Elkhorns and seven miles from Frankfort, In 1796 Frank-
lin county was formed, and his house was then in Franklin county.
(A fuller account of this part of Jesse Vawter's life will be found
in the "Reminiscences" of his son John.)
In 1806 Jesse Vawter lost his land through a defective title.
That same year he moved to Indiana and located on a hill over-
looking Madison, on what is now known as the Michigan Hill
Road. He called his home and farm Mount Glad, because he was
glad there to rest from his wanderings and hoped to spend his
days in peace. Madison was a very small settlement at that time.
The Vawter family is inseparably connected with its early history
and with the history of the Baptist denomination in Indiana.
Jesse Vawter began to preach in about the year 1800. He was
ordained in 1805. In 1807 he assisted in the organization of the
First Baptist Church in Jefferson county, which, at that time, was
called the Coffee Creek Baptist Church. This church was organ-
ized at Mount Glad. At its constitution there were but fifteen
members, and these were all of them connected with the four
families who had come together from Kentucky in the fall of
the year before. These four families were the Vawters, the
Underwoods, the Edwards and the Jacksons. In 1808 these
members built a meeting-house of logs on the hill east of the
Michigan road near the present site of Fairmount Cemetery.
When Jesse Vawter learned of a new settlement being formed,
he visited it and held religious meetings. As the country devel-
oped his preaching tours were enlarged, covering great portions
of the counties of Jefferson, Ripley, Switzerland, Jennings and
Clark. In some cases these settlements were reached by traveling
from twenty to forty miles through the wilderness, much of the
way being marked only by blazed trees and broken-down under-
brush.
In 181 2 the Coffee Creek Church built a new frame meeting-
house on the North Madison hill, now west of the railroad, and,
with that change of location, also changed its name, afterwards
being called the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church. This church
was again moved and became the First Baptist Church of Madi-
son. From its first formation until 1831 Jesse Vawter was al-
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA I3
most its only pastor, Jacob Cox and William Vawter and Reuben
Morey serving some of the time during the later years.
In the minutes of the Madison Association for 1838, we read:
"Jesse Vawter was preeminently useful in the ministry and did
much to advance the Messiah's kingdom here on earth, especially
among the Baptist churches from their first organization in In-
diana, but more particularly in the bounds of what was and is
known as the Silver Creek, Coffee Creek, Loughery, Flat Rock
and Madison Associations. He was without doubt one of the
most pious men of his day, and, as a doctrinal, practical and ex-
perimental preacher, his qualifications and ability for evangelical
preaching was far above mediocrity, and as a peace-maker he was,
perhaps, without his equal in the congregations of which he was
a member."
Elizabeth, wife of Jesse, died September 10, 1830. Afterwards
Jesse lived with his daughter, Polly Branham, for a while, and
with another daughter, Ann Moncrief, for a part of the time.
He died March 20, 1838, in his eighty-third year.
Jesse Vawter was a quiet, thrifty, brown-eyed, peace-loving
man. His granddaughter, Mrs. Frances (Vawter) King, of
North Vernon, Indiana, in speaking of him said : "Grandfather
was of a gentle nature. Every one loved him. He used to ride
down horseback from Madison to see us. We would run to meet
him, and he would say, 'There come my chickens.' He had lost
the sight of one eye in an accident. We used to slip up on his
blind side and kiss him. and he would always jump as though we
had surprised him greatly. He never was impatient with us."
Mrs. Nancy (Moncrief) Amsden, of Madison, Indiana, an-
other granddaughter, said : "I can remember grandfather well
and I love his very name. He lived at my father's for some time
before he died."
Elizabeth, wife of Jesse, was a woman of strong character, and
her grandchildren stood somewhat in awe of her. She was an
excellent housekeeper. Her great cleanliness was a matter for
joking among her neighbors. They said that she never could
endures flies — that she chased them out of her house and down to
the Ohio river. In speaking of her fondness for scrubbing, they
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declared that they believed she scrubbed even the stumps in her
yard.
JESSE VAWTER's story, AS TOLD BY HIMSELF,
May 5, 1835.
I, Jesse Vawter, being in my eightieth year, do this day begin
to write a journal of my life. I was born December, the first day,
1755, in Culpeper county, Virginia. I was sent to school in my
eighth year. About this time my father moved into Orange
county, and I worked on a farm for about ten years. I was the
oldest child of six, and had by nature a mechanical turn of mind.
I did some coopering, and made me a lathe and did some turning ;
I also made some wheels with a millwright. In 1774 my father
hired me to a house carpenter and joiner. In 1775 my father set
me at liberty to act for myself. At this time there was a great
call for flax wheels. I joined my Uncle Oppill. We prepared our
timber, built us a shop with two rooms, chimney in one and stove
in the other. Each of us had a lathe made and mended wheels
until in November, i yjy, when I drove a team and moved a family
out to Holston, three hundred miles, where I attended a farm
with two negro men for Joseph Early.
In December, 1778, I went back to Virginia, and followed
house carpenter's and joiner's work until November, 1779, when
I drove a team for Uncle I. Coper, when I had three uncles and
a brother all in a company moving to Holston. We unloaded our
wagons the second day of December, 1779. I had bought of Jo-
seph Early four hundred acres of land, on which my brother
Philemon and Jonathan Underwood settled at that time. In the
next year, 1780, I labored on a saw and grist mill for old Mr.
Key wood. In December I went back to Virginia, and in 1781 was
married, March twenty-ninth day, and in June was drafted for
two months' tour. I got back to my wife's father's late in August,
and was three months sick. My wife has told me that they sat
up with me forty nights and thought every one might be the last.
The next winter and spring I made myself a light wagon and
had it ironed nicely. In January, 1782, our son John was born.
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In the latter part of April I geared three horses and loaded our
little property and set out for Holston, three hundred miles, and
unloaded the 17th of May on my own premises, and raised a
tolerable crop of corn that year.
In the fall of 1783 I went to old Virginia with my wagon and
moved Aunt Underwood to Holston. In 1785 I, with my wife
and children, went again to Virginia on a visit, and was gone
from the 13th day of September to the 24th of November. I
had built me a shop, and followed making and mending wagons,
and other work, as also attending to my farm until 1790. In
December, 1787, I went to Kentucky on a visit to see my friends,
and in 1790 I sold my land and moved to Kentucky, and landed
there in September, 1790. In 1789 my wife and myself, with
Sally our baby, went on horseback to old Virginia on a visit
to bid our friends a final farewell, as we expected to move to
Kentucky the next year. We unloaded our horses at Brother
Stapp's, September 22d. I took a lease on Mr. Shannon's land
for five years, put up a log cabin and moved into it in November,
1790. August 13, 1 79 1, I left home and went to Holston to aid
my Brother Philemon to move to Kentucky, and got home
again September 20.
August 7, 1793, I left my home and went to Virginia to aid
father Watts in moving to Kentucky, and got home again the
1 8th day of November, 1793. In 1795 I moved to the north
fork of Elkhorn, three miles above the forks, and we lived there
until September 6. 1806, when we moved over the Ohio to
Indiana. During our residence in Kentucky I made looms, made
and mended wagons, made and mended wheels, reels, and did
other mechanical work, but never neglected my farm. And also,
while I kept house in Indiana, I had a shop and did do almost
all kinds of mechanical work, yet never neglected my farm. I
have observed on a minute-book that I had earned in my shop
$344, and that I had received for marriages $151. In 1830 v/e
broke up housekeeping, and on September tenth my wife died,
and I have made my home with Polly Branham, but am a great
deal of my time absent. Since the death of my wife I have not
confined mvself to labor, but have done some little jobs, and have
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received about forty dollars for marriages. Julia Wise died
May lo, 1834.
September, 1835, I attended at Loughery Association, and
came home sick, and am yet quite feeble this first of December.
A LATER STATEMENT BY JESSE VAWTER
At the request of one of my friends I now sit down to record
some of the occurrences of my past life.
I, Jesse Vawter, was born December i, 1755. My parents
were David and Mary Vawter, members of the Episcopalian
Church. I was sprinkled in infancy and received as a member
of that church, and could read my Bible in my eighth year, and
was brought up to farming, but had by nature a mechanical turn
of mind.
At ten years of age I had serious thoughts of religion and
heard a parson preach from these words : "Who among us
shall dwell with devouring fire, who among us shall dwell with
everlasting burnings?" Isaiah xxxiii:i4. That subject made
a deep impression on my mind, although I understood nothing
more than a local fire. About this time I committed the Lord's
Prayer, which I would repeat when I would lie down at night
and in the morning, in order to get religion, but finally concluded
that I would live moral and sober until I married and then I
would get religion, concluding that religion did not suit young
people and when I was settled in the world it would be easy to
obtain it.
As stated above, my mind inclined to mechanical labor. In
1774, in my nineteenth year, my father consented to hire me to
a house carpenter and joiner. In the course of that year our
work led us twenty miles from my father's, and in the bounds
of Baptist preaching. Perhaps in the month of May I went to
the first meeting. The preacher was Thomas Amnions ; his text
was Job X :i5 : "If I be wicked woe unto me, but if I be righteous
yet will I not lift up my head." These words came home to my
heart with such light and power that they made me tremble. I
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had never felt the hke before. I strove to be composed and not
let any person know I was affected, but all in vain, the tears
would run. I did not think I was as wicked as some, but thought
I was not altogether right — that there was some little wrong
about me, and now I thought the Lord had called on me to repent
and seek Him, which I was determined to do. I thought by
praying, reading and reforming that I should soon atone for my
past sins and bring God under obligations to me (alas! poor
blind man) .
Instead of that, I discovered the corruption of my nature
and the deceit of my heart, and that all my efforts had been
selfish and, of course, sinful, and that God says, "Son, give me
thy heart," which I had not done. I now did believe that God
had called me, and if I had sought Him through Jesus Christ,
I might have obtained mercy; but now it appeared to me as if
all hope was gone forever. I yet would try to pray, but thought
my prayers only added to my guilt. I concluded God was angry
with me, that his law condemned me, and it was in vain to ask
His mercy, for I thought my case was finally fixed forever. Yet
my heart would pray for mercy if it could be bestowed according
to the divine government, for I did believe God was right and
His law was right, and if I was condemned forever it would be
right, too. I concluded justice would not suffer me to live on the
earth when right appeared. I thought I should be in eternity be-
fore morning, and in the morning that justice would terminate
my life before night.
One clear morning in July, 1774, I thought I would retire
and try to pray once more before I died. When I got to the place
I thought I dare not ask for mercy, yet my heart seemed to
crave mercy, but I could not see how God could have mercy
on me consistent with His divine perfection. Finally I con-
cluded my fate was fixed to go down to ruin forever, and I rose
up to go to my work. As I arose a reconciliation took place
in my mind — the will of the Lord be done. With this recon-
ciliation I had a view of Jesus and His righteousness. I thought
all nature shone with His glory. I could now see how God could
have mercy upon poor sinners and be just and justify him that
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believed in Jesus. I did believe He had lived and died for sin-
ners and rose again for their justification, and that I was one of
those poor sinners that He came to seek and save. My soul was
filled with love. I thought I could tell to my companions how
good God was, and they would feel as I did, but they under-
stood not what I told them. In the month of October our work
led us into the bounds of another Baptist church, to which I
offered myself and was received and baptized. The first Satur-
day meeting I ever attended I thought was the prettiest sight
I ever saw. The church was called Rapidan, in Culpeper county,
Virginia, but now Madison county.
I thought I would work as much as would keep myself in
clothes and spend my time in going to meeting and be with the
preachers ; which I did for some years. I would sing and pray
and close meetings for the preachers. In 1780 I began to think
it was best for young persons to marry, and on the 29th day of
March, 1781, I was married to Elizabeth, daughter of John and
Sarah Watts, of Culpeper county, Virginia. In January, 1782,
the 8th day, our first son, John, was born, and in May we moved
to Holston, where we lived eight years, and had two sons and
three daughters born, and joined a Baptist church, whose monthly
meetings were twenty miles off. The preacher would come to
my house and have meeting in our neighborhood. Having lost
all hope of a Baptist church near us, we moved to Kentucky in
1790, where we joined the Great Crossing Church in Scott
county, and lived there five years. While there I appeared to be
a silent member. In 1795 we moved down on the north fork
of the Elkhorn and moved our membership to Melonal's Run,
where I was more active.
In 1799 a revival of religion broke out on the Ohio, and in
1800 it appeared to spread over the whole state. A number of
my neighbors and four of my children had obtained hope in
Jesus, which led us to form ourselves into a church and build us
a house. About this time my mind got exercised about preach-
ing, which soon led to my ordination.
Here Vv^e lived five or six years in great harmony, until I lost
my place. In 1806 we moved to Indiana. It may be proper here
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for me to state the difference in my mind as respects preaching.
I thought that preachers were a grade higher than common mem-
bers and that it would be wicked in me to think of preaching, but
to sing, and to pray, and to exhort was the privilege of every
member, and also to tell how good the Lord was, which I did do
for many years, with delight to myself and some others. When
my mind took a turn for preaching it was the greatest trial I had
ever met with, for I thought no man ought to preach but such as
the Lord called to that work, and I could not believe that I was
called to preach, and to run before I was sent would be wicked,
and to refuse to do what the Lord enjoined on me would be
wicked. It appeared like death to go forward and death to be
silent.
About this time I heard two brethren preach; the first was
from the words of Jeptha : "I have opened my mouth to the
Lord and I can not go back." The other was : "Woe to him that
striveth with his Maker." I had opened my mouth to the Lord
and was unwilling to go back; and I thought I would rather die
than to strive against the Lord. Finally, I concluded to submit
my case to my brethren, for they all appeared to encourage me
to go forward ; and to this day I am made to wonder how it is
that my brethren do invite me onward. But I do believe the
best evidence that a man can have that it is his duty to preach
is the voice of his brethren, for no man is a proper judge of him-
self; he will judge too high or too low of his own performances.
I have this day entered my eightieth year. I have been a
citizen of four states, was born in Virginia, lived there twenty-
five years; then moved into the edge of North Carolina, and
lived there ten years ; and then moved into Kentucky and lived
there sixteen years, and in 1806 moved into Indiana. I have
been a member of eight churches, and have in general sat under
the same doctrine that I first believed, which was the total de-
pravity of human nature; the divine character and sonship of
Jesus Christ ; salvation alone by free and sovereign grace, effect-
ual calling, justification by the righteousness of Jesus Christ im-
puted, and the final perseverance of the saints ; and that the
atonement made by Jesus Christ is general in its nature, but
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special in its application, and that the change that takes place in
the sinner is by the spirit of God illuminating the eyes of the un-
derstanding so as to discover the purity of God's laws and the
nature of sin, and the way of life and salvation by Jesus Christ,
and where this faith is found it will produce a corresponding con-
versation and deportment. I believe also in the overruling grace
of God and the freedom of the will, and that God will judge the
world by that man whom He hath ordained, and that there will
be a resurrection of all in that day.
I have been at the constitution of twelve churches, and have
aided at the ordination of eight ministers ; have baptized persons
in eighteen churches; the highest number at any one time was
1 8, and the greatest number in any one church was 127. I have
been at the formation of three associations, and have served as
moderator twenty-three years in succession ; and have solemnized
perhaps little short of two hundred marriages. In the year 1834
I attended three associations. In the year 1835 I attended three
associations and have baptized three persons this year. In 1836
I was at Coffee Creek Association, but was very feeble. In 1837
I was at Madison Association, and was very feeble.
Jesse Vawter died March 20, 1838, eighty-three years old.
JESSE VAWTER's will.
In the name of God, Amen.
I, Jesse Vawter, of Jefferson county and state of Indiana, do
make and ordain this my last will and testament.
Item : My will and desire is that whatever may remain of mine
at my death shall be equally divided among my children, to wit :
John, William, James, Fanny, Polly, Sally, Julia, Achilles and
Ann.
Item : I appoint and ordain my two sons, John and William,
to be the executors of this my last will and testament.
Written with my own hand this 13th day of April, 1832.
Jesse Vawter.
Acknowledged in presence of Thos. T. Stribling, M. M. Burns,
Elias Stapp.
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Codicil to what I have already written.
1. My will is there shall be no court to prove my will.
2. That M. Wise shall receive the same as if his wife were
still living.
3. My will is that those indebted to me shall not be pressed
for money under one year, and that without interest.
4. My wish is that my executors shall make ample satisfac-
tion to those of my friends who shall wait on me in my last hour.
Written under an impression that I shall die soon, this 27th
day of December, 1837. Jesse Vawter.
Thomas T. Stribling.
M. M. Burns.
Elias Stapp.
Codicil attested before assigned.
OLD people's meeting.
"On Wednesday, April 2, 1862, all the living children of Jesse
Vawter, deceased (it being the birthday of William and James
Vawter, each being that day seventy-nine years old), by invita-
tion of these two brothers, met at the house of Williamson D.
Vawter, the son of William Vawter, in the town of Vernon, and
partook of an excellent dinner prepared by W. D. Vawter and
wife. On this occasion the children were John Vawter, in the
eighty-first year of his age; Wm. Vawter and Francis, his wife;
James Vawter and Sally, his wife; the widow, Sally V. Stribling;
Abner Moncrief and Ann V., his wife; the widow. Patsy Vaw-
ter, wife of Achilles Vawter, who died after the meeting was
agreed to be holden in his own town. The only one of the liv-
ing adopted children absent was Matthew Wise, who was unable
by disease and age to attend. All of these people were among the
first white inhabitants in and near where the city of Madison now
is, while it was yet a heavy forest. The entire number present
now are, and nearly all were at that early day, members of the
Baptist denomination.
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"On coming together, John Vawter, after an exchange of sal-
utations and inquiries about absent friends, and recounting old
times and hard times, old age and its infirmities, proposed, as a
sentiment and as a rule of action for each, this language of the
poet: 'Come, let us anew our journey pursue,' etc. All seemed
to harmonize in the sentiment and, after singing the hymn twice,
we were invited to the dinner-table, and after dinner were in-
vited by Smith Vawter to take tea with him. All parties agree-
ing to do so, we repaired to his residence and partook of an ex-
cellent supper. After this social interview the company sepa-
rated, perhaps never all to meet in time again. A list of the age
of each was made out by W. D. Vawter and the number of chil-
dren and grandchildren of each. Wm. Vawter and wife have of
children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, sixty or sev-
enty."
The above was written for the Vernon Banner, April 4, 1862,
by John Vawter, who was then living at Morgantown, Ind.
,%*••
v\
John Vawter
William and Frances Vawter
James Vawter Achilles Vawter
The Sons of Jesse Vawter
JOHN VAWTER
John Vawter, the son of Jesse and EHzabeth (Watts) Vawter,
was born in Orange (now Madison) county, Virginia, January
8, 1782. He was married four times, the first time to Polly
Smith on December 17, 1805. Polly Smith was born December
30, 1781 ; died July 19, 1825. Their children were Smith, Jane
and Emily. After the death of Polly S. Vawter John Vawter
married Jane Smith, a sister of Polly. She died October 4, 1826,
leaving no children. Then John Vawter married Ruth Minton,
who was born in January, 181 7, and had three children, Marion,
Mary and Allan. Ruth (Minton) Vawter died September 2,
1850, and John Vawter married, October 17, 1850, Mrs. Martha
Pearce, by whom he had one child, Emma, who was born May
II, 1854, and killed by falling lumber November 13, 1859. Mrs.
Martha (McGannon) Pearce Vawter was born March 8, 1822;
died January 21, 1892.
"John Vawter was licensed as a Baptist preacher in 1804, and
removed from Kentucky to Madison, Indiana, in 1807. He was
the first magistrate of Madison, and was soon afterwards elected
sheriff of Jefferson and Clark counties, and in 1810 was appointed
U. S. Marshal for the state. He served as frontier ranger dur-
ing the Indian campaign of 1811-13; was elected colonel of
militia of Jennings county in 1817; founded Vernon, the county
seat of Jennings county; laid out Vernon and gave every third
lot to the town. He was pastor of the Baptist church in Vernon
from 1821-48, a member of the legislature from 183 1-5, and in
1836 of the senate, where he was instrumental in securing the
adoption of a policy of internal improvement by the state. He
removed to Morgan county in 1848, founded Morgantown and
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presented a brick church to the Baptist congregation of that place.
He died August 17, 1862."
The following is an account of the early life of John Vawter,
written by himself. He says :
^ "I now am an old man in the eighty-first year of my age. I
was born January 8, 1782. My father was Elder Jesse Vawter.
My mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Watts. My parents,
poor, frugal, honest and industrious, were both born in Culpeper
or Orange county, Virginia; Jesse, on the first day of December,
1755 ; Elizabeth, his wife, on the 30th of December, 1762. They
were married on the 29th of March, 1781, and lived to see all of
their children, nine in number, grown and married. The eldest
was myself, John. The others were: William and James
(twins), Fanny, Mary, Sally, Julia, Achilles and Ann. I was
born in Culpeper or Orange county, Virginia. It is now Madison
county. William, James, Fanny, Sally and Mary were born in
North Carolina, now Sullivan county, Tennessee, called the state
of Franklin at that time. Julia, Achilles and Ann were born in
Kentucky.
"On my father's side we are descended from Saxon families.
Toward the close of the sixteenth century three brothers, John,
Bartholomew and Angus, came from England to the colony of
Virginia. The three brothers originally spelled their name
V-a-w-1-t-e-r, but for some unknown reason dropped the T after
coming to Virginia, and to this day the entire family of the three
brothers and their numerous descendants all spell their name
V-a-w-t-e-r.
"My great, great grandfather's name was John, and that was
also the name of my great grandfather, who had four sons, Bar-
tholomew, Angus, Richard and David,* and two daughters,
whose names were Winifred and Margaret. David was my
grandfather. David had three sons, Jesse, Philemon and William,
and three daughters, Winifred, Margaret and Mary. Jesse was
my father.
"Jesse in his youthful days was naturally a mechanic, and his
*Mr. Vawter has evidently forgotten to mention Beverly here, who was one
of the children of John.^
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father, David, consented to his learning a trade. While working
as an apprentice in 1774 or '75, and during the Revolutionary
War (of which he was afterwards a soldier), he heard of certain
traveling preachers in Virginia. He attended one of the appoint-
ments at which Thomas Ammons was the preacher. His text
was in the book of Job, tenth chapter and fifteenth verse : 'If I
be wicked, woe unto me,' etc. This sermon, under the influence
of God's Holy Spirit, opened the door of hope in the sure mercies
of God's dear Son. He was soon afterwards united with the
Baptist church in Culpeper or Orange county, Virginia, and con-
tinued a useful and exemplary member of the Baptist order to
the day of his death in the eighty-third year of his age. Jesse
was the first-born of six children. The others all died before he
did. His wife, Elizabeth, died nearly eight years before him.
'T do not remember my father's mother. Her maiden name
was Rucker. After the death of her husband, David Vawter,
she married a Rentfrow and died in Kentucky.
"Elizabeth Vawter, wife of Jesse and my mother, was a
daughter of John and Sarah Watts of Orange county, Virginia.
John Watts was a small man, of English stock. His wife was a
Barnett, of fine figure, rather portly and of English descent. I
remember these grandparents well. They came to Kentucky to
live in the year 1793. They both lived to a good old age and
both died in Kentucky. Grandmother outlived grandfather sev-
eral years.
"I can remember as far back as the year 1785, when my father
and mother, with four of their children, went on a visit to Vir-
ginia and left my brother William with mother's parents, John
and Sarah Watts. I have a distinct recollection of the closing
scenes, of the weeping, of my feelings on the return to Holston,
of crossing New river, etc.
'T remember my father's visit to Kentucky in 1787, when the
new country was called by the name of Levisa Country. In the
year 1788 or 1789 my father went to Keywood Mills and put me
on a sack of grain on the back of a rough-riding horse. Going
down a steep descent, off I went with the sack on top of me. I
carried bruises for many days made by the sharp, hard stones.
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"I remember when my father and mother went to Virginia in
the year 1789 on horseback with Sally, the infant babe. They
brought brother William back with them. William would say,
'Your Daddie' and 'Your Mamma.' He would not own his
father and mother until compelled to do so.
"I remember being sent by my mother in company with my
brother William to bring home the cows. We got lost and trav-
eled many miles and crossed to Keywood Mills, and then we
knew the way home. We abandoned the cows, thinking that
they didn't intend to go home, and yet they went directly there.
"I have a distinct recollection of the winding up of matters in
the Holston country and of the family moving to Kentucky in
1790. My father was thrown from his horse with his rifle into
Beaver creek on the first day's travel. We waited at Bean's
Station for additional immigrants to meet and increase the safety
of the company in their march through the wilderness. They did
not come. While at the station we were greatly alarmed one
night by some cow-drivers throwing a bundle of cane on the fire.
It made a great noise while burning. We decided to move on
though few in number. I remember that a raven for several days
advanced ahead of us, alighting on the trees and keeping up a
continual squawking; of crossing the Clinch river; the turning
out of the horses to graze ; the men going across the river to fish ;
that I was swamped in attempting to go to them and came near
being drowned; of father's horse, with a leather sack of shop
tools on his back, trying a near way to get up a steep bank and
falling back with the sack of tools into the valley below.
"I remember well seeing many bones of individuals who had
been killed by the Indians and their bodies buried so close to the
surface that the wolves had dragged them out; of the Indian
blinds, behind which they concealed themselves. These were
made of bushes stuck in the ground. At the time we saw them
the bushes were dry. I remember riding on one of the pack horses
and carrying a large basket of provisions for many days to ac-
commodate those who were hungry between meals ; also of sister
Fanny falling off of the animal on which mother rode; of the
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horse treading on her leg and bending it so much that, at first,
it was thought to be broken, but it proved otherwise.
"On the day's travel before reaching Crab Orchard, Uncle
Achilles Stapp was so exhausted that he sat down at the root of
a tree, determined to remain there alone, saying that if the Indians
came, come they must, he could not and would not go any farther.
Presently, along came Molly Jackson, a cousin to my father, and
gave the tired man a bottle of whisky. He drank, and it so re-
vived him that he traveled on with the rest. That night the most
of the company reached Crab Orchard. All except mother lay
down as if all danger was over. She armed herself with a small
ax and kept watch, but in the morning all were safe. The next
day we passed the old Mil ford Court House. At night we reached
Joseph Delaney's, where Richmond now is, in Madison county,
Kentucky. The next day was rainy. We crossed the Kentucky
river. One of the pack horses lay down in the river with mother's
feather beds. We passed through Lexington that same day and
arrived, all tired out, at Achilles Stapp's about sundown on the
22d of September, 1790.
"In the fall of 1790 father took a lease of Mr. Shannon for
five years. I remember the cabin and other buildings put up on
the place; of making ten pounds of sugar there on New Year's
day in 1791 ; of four polecats finding their way to father's meat
barrel in a rail pen ; of father's determining to make them leave
the barrel, and how they punished him for driving them out by
spoiling his meat. I also remember when a weasel caught a hen.
Brother William picked up the hen, and the weasel let go the hen
and buried its teeth in William's thumb.
"The first school I was sent to was kept by a man named Henry
Jenkins. No books were then used in the school except Del-
worth's spelling-book, a common primer and the New Testament.
At that time it was customary to turn the teacher out a little be-
fore Christmas until after New Year's. It was a time of great
frolic and fun among the scholars. It was all right, too, with the
parents. The school was continued about six months. The second
school teacher in the same place was Benjamin Quinn. Father
sent William and James to Benjamin Quinn and sent me to make
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Up their lost time. Although I was not a regular scholar Quinn
called me up and whipped me until he drew blood for cutting off
his hogs' tails, as he said. The charge was wholly untrue, and
I determined that when I became a man I would punish Quinn by-
whipping him, but on arriving at manhood I thought better of it.
"I have a lively recollection of the first money I ever owned.
A traveling man came to the school while I was there and in-
quired the way to a neighbor's. It being play time, I went with
the man and showed him the way, for which he gave me six and
one-fourth cents. The older boys got around me and gave me an
old written copy-book, a few sheets of paper and a ball for my
money. On going home, elated with my treasures and good for-
tune, father threw away the ball, and the paper was worthless.
The next money I received was for a hand-rake I made for Mr.
Joshua Stapp. He gave me six and one- fourth cents for the rake.
I took care not to purchase old copy-books, paper and balls with
the money, but laid it away until friend Stapp employed me to
do a second job of work, for which he gave me twelve and one-
half cents, called nine pence. The next piece of money owned by
me I found in the hay loft of an old horse mill. It was customary
in those days to cut up the money and make, if possible, nine
nine-pence pieces out of a dollar, or five quarters. Nearly all the
silver change was thus cut up for many years.
"About that time my father sent me to help a man in taking
corn on horseback to a merchant in Georgetown. The man
thought that he must treat all the boys to what they could drink
for their services. The w^eather was cold and the argument was,
'Drink and get warm.' I yielded and felt myself quite a man.
I lost all fear and shame and could talk with any one and every
one.
"The next summer my father set me to plowing with Grand-
father Watts's black horse. The flies were bad, and the horse
would sweep his tail continually over the lines to drive off the
flies. In order to remedy the evil I cut all the hair off the horse's
tail and then denied it. This is the first time I recollect doing
wrong and denying it. This was in the year 1 794.
"In the year 1795 father moved from his Shannon lease in
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Scott county on to the land he had purchased on the north side
of the North Elkhorn, some three or four miles from his first
settlement, three miles from the two forks of the Elkhorns and
seven miles from Frankfort. This was the second settlement made
in the woods by father after coming to Kentucky, and each time
the commencement was in Woodford county. In the winter of
1 790- 1 79 1, Scott county was formed out of a part of Woodford
county, and that time father was in Scott county. In like manner,
in 1795-96, Franklin county was formed from Woodford county,
and father's new residence was in the county of Franklin. The
Indians did considerable mischief near these settlements in steal-
ing horses and in killing several people.
"In the year 1 795-1 796 peace was made on our northern fron-
tier.
'Tn the year 1796 seven of father's family were all taken down
with the genuine shaking ague and fever. I was attacked in the
month of August and did not recover for about sixteen months.
For one month I had two shakes a day. Father and sister Mary
were the only ones who escaped the disease."
At this point the story was cut short by the death of the writer,
who was then eighty. An article was found, however, at North
Madison, Indiana, in an old scrap-book belonging to Mrs. Sarah
Stribling, which was written by Col. Vawter and published in
the Madison Courier in the year 1850. This article, which fol-
lows, carries on the story with a break of only a few years.
"Father, with six or eight other Kentuckians from Franklin
and Scott counties, visited what was then called the new purchase
at a very early date. A part journeyed by land and a part by
water. The land party crossed the Ohio river at Port William,
the others descending the Kentucky and Ohio rivers in a pirogue
to a point opposite Milton. The pirogue answered the double
purpose of carrying forward the provisions of the company
and enabling the men to pass from one bank to the other, swim-
ming their horses alongside. The company made their head-
quarters in the river bottom in the eastern extremity of the city
limits of Madison. In the day the company divided into two
parties, exploring the adjacent highlands to the head of Crooked
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creek and the neighboring lands of Clifty. They met at night and
reported their discoveries. To Crooked creek they gave the name
of Mill creek; to Clifty, Hard Scrabble; but subsequently, on
learning the name of each stream, the red man's name prevailed
with the settlers.
"At that time, December, 1805, Elder Jesse Vawter selected
for his residence the spot where Judge S. C. Stevens now resides
on the hill. He returned home and made every arrangement for
taking possession of his new home early in the spring of 1806.
He, with others, made the first settlement in and about Madison.
Nearly all the settlements made in that year and the two or three
succeeding years were made on the highlands. Among the first
settlers in the county were Elder Jesse Vawter, James Under-
wood, Joshua Jackson, Colby Underwood and James Edwards,
all of the Baptist denomination. East of Crooked creek were Col.
John Ryker, Paul Froman, Ralph Griffin, Joseph Lane and others,
the last two families being Baptists. West and southwest were
Col. Samuel Smock, James Arbuckle, Michael and Felix Monroe,
Isaiah Blankinship, Amos Chitwood and others. The first corn
was raised in Jefferson county in the year 1806, most of it being
planted as late as June. The first preaching in the early settle-
ments within the bounds of Jefferson and Switzerland counties
was by Baptist ministers. Elder Jesse Vawter, John Taylor, Phil-
emon Vawter and John Reese were early settlers and the only
resident ministers at that time in the vicinity of what is now the
city of Madison. From the year 1805, their first visit, until 1810,
the Baptist was the only organized church in the limits of what
is now Jefferson and Switzerland counties. In March, 1807, at
the home of Jesse Vawter, a Baptist church was organized called
Crooked Creek Church, afterwards Mount Pleasant Church.
"The first settlement made in the river bottom near Madison
was by William and John Hall in 1806 or 1807, a little above
Isom Ross's tanyard (purchased by Jonathan Lyon in 1808).
The second was made by John H. Wagoner on the high bank
a little west of Main street, in Madison. Wagoner unloaded his
boat on the loth day of May, 1808, and immediately commenced
building a house to live in. The third person who settled in the
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limits of the present city was Robert M. Trotter, afterwards a
justice of the peace; the fourth was Joshua Wilkinson, a single
man; the fifth was Joseph Strickland, afterwards justice of the
peace, and with Strickland came a man by the name of Schofield
and perhaps others not recollected. Next came John Booth,
the first innkeeper ; then John Sering, Samuel Burnet ( second inn-
keeper) ; then Charles Easton with a number of others, which
brings us down to the time of the first sale of lots in Madison in
February, 1811. During all the above time, all the preaching for
twenty to thirty-five miles up and down the river and through
the county was of the Baptist order. The first sermon ever de-
livered within the chartered limits of Madison was by Elder Jesse
Vawter, among the cottonwoods on the river beach, a little above
the stone mill. The text was the first verse, first chapter of John's
Gospel. It was a funeral occasion, the death of widow Slack.
Mrs. Jonathan Lyon, mother of Philemon Vawter, closed the
service. This was the first death and funeral preached within the
vicinity of Madison.
"After the land sales in May, 1808, and the sale of lots in
Madison in 181 1, the town and the country commenced fill-
ing up pretty rapidly with settlers. The first man who
preached in Madison, other than Baptist, was of the name of
Hawkins, a hell reductioner, who afterwards became a convert
to Baptist belief. Some time after the establishment of courts in
Madison, and during the sitting of the court, Elijah Sparks, an
attorney-at-law and Methodist minister, and Jesse L. Holman,
a Baptist exhorter, both of Dearborn county, during the court
week, preached for the people at the house of Philemon Vawter,
near the Crooked creek graveyard. This was the first Methodist
preaching in the immediate vicinity of Madison. After public
buildings were erected in Madison, Col. Brown, a Methodist
preacher, preached in Madison and another by the name of
Frame; and so did old Dr. Fiske. About this time, if I mistake
not. Dr. Oglesby commenced preaching in Madison, also a man
by the name of Strange, also Squire Strother (of Kentucky) and
Amos Chitwood. In the year of 1812 or 1813, not earlier, a Meth-
odist meeting-house was built in Madison, and from that time
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Methodism began to take root and grow in the country. About
this time Elder Wilham Robinson, a Presbyterian preacher,
moved into Madison and commenced preaching, and soon organ-
ized a church of his order. He was succeeded by a man by the
name of Searl. So much for the early religious denominations
about and in Madison.
"I was the jfirst justice of the peace within the vicinity of Madi-
son while it was in Clark county. My commission bears the date
the 1 6th of July, 1808. The first judges for Jefferson county were
Gen. William McFarland, president of the Court of Common
Pleas, and Samuel Smock and William Colton, his associates.
The first clerk and recorder was Col. John Paul ; second clerk,
Richard C. Talbot. First sheriff, John Vawter, commissioned
such the 14th of December, 1810, retired from the office by virtue
of a commission dated 29th of July, 181 3, as United States
marshal for Indiana Territory. The second sheriff was James
Vawter ( I am not certain but Basil Bentley v/as second sheriff in
Jefferson county, but very soon retired from office). The third
sheriff, Thomas T. Stribling. The first court ever held in Jeffer-
son county was held in a log cabin owned by John H. Wagoner,
in February, 181 1. The sale of the first lots in Madison (old
town) was in the same month; the first proprietors. Col. John
Paul, Lewis Davis and Jonathan Lyon ; the first addition west,
surveyed by me for Col. John Paul. The first court house, called
the Buckeye House, was built in 1811. It was built by myself
for the proprietors. The first jail was a square log house, builder's
name not now recollected; first public house was kept by John
Booth ; second, by Samuel Burnet; third by Major Henry Ristine.
The first store was owned by John Sering & Co. ; a drug store
was started about the same time by Dr. Drake & Co. ; the third
store was opened by S. C. Stevens ; fourth by myself; fifth by J. &
N. Hunt; sixth by McCabe & Co.; seventh by Mr. Clarkston;
eighth by John Mclntire. The first physician was of the name of
Fiske ; second James Hicks ; third John Howes ; fourth David H.
Maxwell. The first attorney-general, Alex. A. Meek ; the second,
a man by the name of Oulds ; third, Gen. William Hendricks. The
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first dray ever used in Madison was owned by Simeon Reynolds,
and managed by his most excellent son, William L. Reynolds.
"I was personally acquainted with the first proprietors of the
town. A more excellent or upright good man than Col. Paul was
hard to be found. He was one of Gen. Roger Clark's bold, ad-
venturous soldiers, who aided in the capture of Kaskaskia and
Vincennes. He was elected one of the representatives from Clark
county in the year 1810. This was previous to the formation of
Jefferson county, and Col. Paul then resided at Madison. He was
also one of the members for Jefferson county who formed the
present constitution of Indiana. I was crier of the first sale of
lots in Madison, but had nothing to do with the surveying or
laying out of the same. Laid out the first addition west of Broad-
way for Col. Paul in the winter of 18 14 and 181 5. Had nothing
to do with any addition to the town.
"My second visit to Indiana was in May, 1806. I came in a
pirogue and landed a little above the stone mill opposite Milton,
visited the highlands east and west of Crooked creek, continued
at my father's half-faced shanty until near the middle of June in
order to assist him in getting his corn planted ; returned in the
same craft with my mother and other relatives to Frankfort, Ken-
tucky. In September, 1806, my father moved his family from
Kentucky to Mount Glad, the place where Judge S. C. Stevens
now resides. In December, 1806, I made my third visit to Indiana
in company with John Branham, a brother-in-law, and James
Vawter. We aided in driving my father's cattle and fattened and
stock hogs from his Kentucky residence to his new home in what
was then a wilderness. At this time I made a selection of a place
to move myself and family to in the coming spring. It was the
identical spot where the depot and machine shops of the railroad
company are now upon the hill. In March, 1807, I arrived with
my family, wife, and one child, at my original selected site in the
woods. In 1808 I built a house nearly opposite Godman's pork-
house on the hill and resided there until 18 12. In this year I pur-
chased property in Madison and moved to it. The property pur-
chased by me was two lots on Main Cross street, east of Polley
and Butler's iron store and west of Mulberry street. In 18 14 I
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sold both lots to Mr. David McCkire. In the winter of 1815 I
purchased of Col. John Paul the corner now owned by George
M. Phelps, and built a large frame house (large for the size of the
houses in Madison). Had the water conveyed by pipes, in con-
nection with Col. Paul, from the hill at Hite's tanyard to the same,
expecting to live and end my days there. In the same year I sold
it also to David McClure, moved to Vernon in November, 181 5,
and continued to reside there until November, 1849, with my
family. Since November, 1849, have resided in Morgantown,
Morgan county, Indiana. John Vawter.
"April 13, 1850."
Perhaps the personality of John Vawter can best be realized
by giving some stories that are told of him by his neighbors and
friends and by giving something of his life in Vernon. He had
a wide acquaintance, traveled around a great deal for those days
and kept in touch with all his relatives. A number of these stories
were taken from an article by Caroline Pabody Frost, which was
published in the Vernon Journal, and the rest were told by other
friends.
"Col. John Vawter was United States surveyor for a portion
of the Northwest Territory. He came to the place where Vernon
now stands in 181 3. He was greatly struck with the beauty of
the country and determined to make it his future home. He plat-
ted the town in 181 5 and moved there the same year. At this
time there was but one white family in Jennings county. In this
wilderness Col. Vawter left his young wife and little children
while he went upon his surveying tours, giving strict injunctions
that no Indians be allowed to enter the house or get any liquor.
One day soon after Col. Vawter left home two Indians came to
the door, and pushing in without leave, demanded 'fire-water.'
Mrs. Vawter told them that she had none for them, and to ap-
pease their anger brought out some ribbon. They were delighted
with the gift of a yard or two apiece of orange colored ribbon.
Smith Vawter, the small son of Col. Vawter, was sitting in the
chimney corner watching the savages with absorbing interest,
when one of them suddenly sprang to his feet with a blood cur-
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dling war-whoop and, swinging his tomahawk high in the air,
stood with it poised over the boy's head for what seemed an age
to the boy, who thought his time had come, but who looked the
savage calmly in the eye. The Indian dropped the tomahawk and
sat down, saying that he was a brave boy and would make a 'heap
good Indian.' The Indians then ransacked the cabin for liquor
and, finding a treasured bottle of peach brandy, each took a drink,
and, generously leaving the bottle, departed."
"In the year 1816 three houses were built in Vernon, and little
clearings with cabins in the center began to dot the surrounding
wilderness. The first school house was built by Col. Vawter on
the 'Commons' near where the railroad bridge now stands. In its
one room Mrs. Lard (Vernon's first teacher) cooked, slept and
taught. The older pupils read in the English Reader, the younger
ones in the spelling-book, which they were required to spell nearly
through, both off and on the book, before beginning on 'In
Adam's fall. We sinned all' and 'Young Obidias, David and Jo-
sias, All were pious.' Each one did sums on his slate. The Murray
Grammar and parsing finished the list."
"The first church (the Baptist) was organized in Vernon in
18 16, and John Vawter was one of its seven members.
"The first board of commissioners met in Vernon, March 5,
1817. John Vawter was appointed clerk and also 'to act as agent
for the transaction of all such duties as are required by an act of
the late territorial legislature for fixing the seats of justice in all
new counties that may be set off.' Ordered at the same meeting
'that John Vawter have the use of the public grounds to sow a
crop of oats, he to sow the same with timothy or blue grass.'
"On April i, 181 7, the board ordered the report of the com-
missioner for fixing the county seat be recorded as soon as the
recorder's office be established, John Vawter and David McClure
having offered to the commissioners various lots of land and
sums of money 'on condition of the seat of justice being estab-
lished on the public grounds in the town of Vernon.' The land
consisted of seventy town lots, besides the public ground; two
acres of land for a burying-ground ; three lots of an acre each for
places of religious worship, school-houses, etc., all in suitable
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places; a donation of land on the north and south of town. The
land east of said town, and west of the creek, was ever to remain
'open and common to the inhabitants of said town and county.'
''In the year 181 8, John Vawter, treasurer of the county, pro-
duced his vouchers showing he had received and paid out $265.50.
"At the meeting of the board December, 1822, appears the
first mention of the 'Jennings County Seminary.'
"Col. Vawter, trustee, reports a long list of fines paid to him
by justices of the peace. The following fines were imposed on
divers persons by sundry justices: Profane swearing, $4.00; as-
sault, $0.01; fighting, $0.50; Sabbath breaking, $1.00; profane
swearing, $1.00; assault, $0.50; selling liquor without license,
$2.00."
"The first newspaper, The Vernon Visitor, was owned and ed-
ited by John Vawter and printed by Richard Randall. The outfit
of this paper consisted of a meager supply of type and one of the
old-fashioned Washington hand-presses, it being necessary, in
order to print the paper, for a boy to roll the type with a large
brayer at every impression. The first account of payments and
receipts in this printing office is dated March i, 1840.
ACCOUNT.
Paid for.
Fire wood $1 50
Two reams paper 20 00
Pai^er 25
Door lock I 50
Ball of twine 38
Books, this kind 93
Postage 16
Four cjuires paper 20 00
Candles 75
Freight on paper 37
For blanks i 00
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Received from.
Noah Noble, for paper $i 50
Wm. Browning', for paper i 50
David Heller, for paper i 50
Benj. Hobbs. for paper i 50
Benj. Hobbs, horse bills 2 50
T. L. House, horse bills 2 00
Samuel Wilder, paper 75
Wm. Cory, bills 2 00
Cash. jNIcMenard, blanks 2 00
Wm. Griffith, news i 50
Granville Griffith, news i 50
Wm. D. Vawter. paper 75
E. P. Smalley 75
D. T. Whitney, hand bills i 50
Alex. Adams, three papers i 50
John ^^^alker, Wm. R. Walker, H.
Tripp and Baxter Butler, subscriptions
paid in rent 3 00
Amos Knapp, paid in potatoes i 50
Lewis P. Grinstead, paper i 50
Here the account ends without saying how long a period of time
it covers. The paper was sold early in the forties to Amos Frost.
"Col. Vawter and Dr. Pabody were among the early legislators
for the new state of Indiana. They both served for several con-
secutive terms, the former in the senate, the latter in the house.
They made the journey to the capital on horseback, carrying
their wardrobes in their saddle-bags. These two legislators were
Whigs and advocates of 'internal improvement,' which was the
'bone of contention' between the two parties.
"Col. Vawter was a zealous advocate and untiring worker for
the construction of the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad, much
to the disgust of some of his neighbors, who saw in the building
of that road only ruin to the country. Steam cars, they said,
would do away entirely with hauling, deprive the workingman of
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work and wages, horses would lose their value, frightful accidents
would occur from the frightening of cattle and horses by the
locomotive, and lastly, there would not be enough produce be-
tween Madison and Indianapolis to load one train of cars. The
wordy war was long and loud. When the surveyors appeared in
Vernon and proceeded to run their line through Col. Vawter's
front hall, the rejoicing of his opponents was great; but he,
stanch to his principles, told them to go ahead, he would get his
house out of the way, and so he did. He moved it across the
street (where it now forms part of the house near the railroad
bridge) and he saw his garden and orchard covered by the em-
bankment without a murmur.
"During the building of the road occurred the 'Irish riot,' the
most exciting episode in Vernon history excepting perhaps the
'Morgan raid.' The Irish laborers belonged to two clans, the
Corkonians and the Fardowns, which were constantly on the
warpath. The latter outnumbered the former and made an effort
to have the Corkonians discharged by the contractors."
There are many anecdotes told of John Vawter while he lived
in Vernon and in Morgantown. He was a minister, but in those
days a minister was compelled to make a living in other ways
than by preaching, as he did not receive compensation for his
services. As a minister Col. Vawter was able to indulge his love
for match-making and, as Taylor Vawter said, "He just loved to
marry people for fun."
Caroline Pabody Frost said that it was expected that matri-
mony was the impending fate of any one who worked for Col.
John Vawter. 'Tn one instance a bashful young man employed
in his printing office was invited over to take Christmas dinner
with him. He was duly admonished on his arrival to clean his
feet on the door mat, and at the table to eat all that he took on
his plate. When dinner was over he was taken into the parlor.
Col. Vawter left the room, but presently returned, bringing with
him the buxom lass who had cooked the dinner. A chair was
drawn up beside the young man and she was seated upon it.
'There,' said Col. Vawter, as he left the room, 'I have done my
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part, now you do yours.' What followed did not then transpire,
but this time it was not a wedding."
It was said that Col. Vawter had a great deal to do with the
marriage of Williamson D. Vawter and his first wife, Mary
Tighlman Crowder. Neither one of the young people was of age,
and the father of Williamson was very much opposed to the mar-
riage on that account. Col. Vawter persuaded the young woman
to go on a visit to a friend in an adjoining county and stay there
a sufficient time until the license could be procured. Then he
furnished Williamson, who was working for him at that time,
with a horse and money to go to the place where she was and
get married.
"When Col. John Vawter was a widower for the second time
his son Smith was going to see a girl by the name of Minton.
His father said to him : 'Now, Smith, I want you to stop going
to the Minton house.' Smith, like the good son he was, stopped
going, thinking his father had some objection to the family. The
first thing Smith knew his father was about to be married to Ruth
Minton himself. The day the wedding took place Smith climbed
one of the tallest trees in his father's front yard, and as the wed-
ding procession was returning from the church and Col. Vawter
and his bride were passing under the tree where Smith was con-
cealed, Smith sang out, 'O, good Lord, what have I done, I've
married the father instead of the son !'
"Col. Vawter was married four times himself and his son Smith
five times. It is told that at the funeral of Smith Vawter's third
wife there were a number of ministers who talked in an affecting
manner, and then Col. Vawter arose. He said : 'My son, we all
sympathize deeply with you in your affliction. You are just bury-
ing your third beloved companion while I am living with my
third. When my second wife was dying I said to her : "Oh, my
dear, what shall I do?" She replied: "John, the Lord will pro-
vide." I say the same to you, my dear son Smith. The Lord will
provide for you.'
"WTien Col. John Vawter was in search of a fourth wife he
went one day to the door of the house where Mrs. Martha Pearce
lived. She asked him to come in. 'No, no, Sister Pearce,' said
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he, 'I am just on a little matter of business. I am going to Madi-
son to-day and will be back to-morrow. I want to know if you
will marry me. I will stop for your reply when I return. Good
day, Sister Pearce.'*
"When Smith Vawter, the son of John Vawter, wished to join
the church and was being questioned by the ministers in regard
to his belief, he said : 'I believe in Christ, but further than that
I can not go.' One of the ministers said : 'Then, my son, I can
not baptize you.' Col. John Vawter said : 'Well, I will then, my
son,' and he did.
"Col. Vawter was very particular about what he ate and the
manner in which it was prepared. While out on a preaching tour
he and a number of others went to a house for dinner. As soon
as they were invited out to dinner, he said to the hostess : 'Have
you any corn bread?' 'No,' replied she, 'no corn bread to-day.'
'Well, friends, we will go back into the parlor and wait until
Sister Jones makes her corn bread.' She made it."
Another thing of which Col. Vawter was very fond was coffee.
He always carried his favorite kind around with him and would
ask the lady of the house to make him a cup. The one who made
the coffee exactly right stood very high in his favor.
Col. Vawter was also very particular about his person. He had
a clean shave every morning and bathed his feet every night be-
fore going to bed.
"Chief among the peculiarities of Col. Vawter was an intense
antipathy to dogs and to tobacco. If a friend called at his home,
who had unfortunately allowed his dog to follow him, he was left
standing at the door with outstretched hand while his host gave
chase to the dog and securely fastened it without the gate. He
sometimes descended from the lofty pulpit in the old Baptist
Church, in the midst of his sermon, in pursuit of an unlucky
canine that had chanced to wander in. He would chase it around
*This fourth marriage took place soon after the death of the third wife.
When John T. Vawter, a grandson, was written to for the purpose of finding
whether the dates were correct or not, he replied: "There is no mistake. I went
with the Colonel, my grandfather, when he asked Mrs. Pearce to marry him,
and they were married in five or six days thereafter.
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and out the door, then would mount the steps and go on preaching
as if that were part of his program.
"At the Association once in Vernon, Col. Vawter, who was
very hospitable, said : 'Now I have a new house out here and I
want you all to come to my house for dinner. I will entertain
you every one and you are welcome, but I don't want any one
to bring dogs or to spit on my clean floors.' "
Wm. H. McCoy, of Franklin, used to live in Vernon and knew
Col. Vawter there. He told this anecdote: "Col. Vawter was
opposed to collections for missions. He didn't believe in missions.
At the Association, which met in Vernon, there was present Mr.
Crabb, who was the state collector for missions. On Saturday
before the Sunday service some of the ministers wanted to vote
that a collection for missions should be taken up. 'No, no,' said
Col. Vawter, 'I will leave if you do.' The matter was dropped.
The next day there were a number of ministers on the platform
to speak. Col. Vawter was always the man to take a nap just
whenever and wherever he wanted to. While one of the ministers
was speaking Col. Vawter dropped off behind the platform, lay
down on a log and went to sleep. Mr. Crabb observed this.' He
spoke next, cut his remarks short and asked that a collection be
taken for missions, and it was. When the minutes of the Associa-
tion were read, the secretary said : 'and a collection for missions
was taken.' 'Hold on,' said Col. Vawter, 'no such thing!' 'Yes,
said the others, the collection was taken while you were asleep '
'What next?' said Col. Vawter."
General Breckinridge of Minnesota, talking to Williamson
Vawter, told this anecdote about Col. John Vawter, whom he
knew. He said : "Vernon was famous in the early history of the
country for its courts. There was at North Vernon at that time
a well-known Irish lawyer. Col. Vawter was subpoenaed on two
cases being tried by this lawyer. He was a witness on the side
the lawyer wished to win in one case and a witness on the side
the lawyer did not wish to win in the other case. The lawyer, in
summing up the first case, said : 'And who is this Col. John Vaw-
ter? He is the marshal of the Territory of Indiana, founder of
Vernon and defender of the oppressed.' In summing up the
42 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
second case, he said : 'Who is this old John Vawter ? He is the
hirehng of the United States Government, the nabob of Vernon
and a secrater of nagers.' "
"A Hoosier was travehng in Michigan, and, while stopping at
a hotel, incidentally revealed the fact that he originally lived in
southern Indiana. The landlord quickly inquired of his guest
whether or not he knew Col. John Vawter. of Vernon, to which
question the boarder replied in the affirmative. 'Then I must tell
you my first impression of Col. Vawter,' said the landlord. Tn
an early day, before the railroad was built, I was traveling from
Madison to Vernon, and, nearing the town of Vernon, I saw a
surveyor and his chain carrier, working near the road. I inquired
for a place in Vernon where I could stop for the night and have
my horse stabled and fed. The surveyor at once kindly told me
where the boarding-house was located, and said that a man there
would take care of my horse. At supper time the surveyor and
his gang came in and I soon learned that the man with the com-
pass was the proprietor of the hotel. After supper I asked direc-
tions to a store. The landlord said that he would walk up town
with me. Upon arriving at the store I found a general stock of
goods, and then learned that my escort was owner and proprietor
of the establishment. While I was puzzling my brain as to how
one man could attend to so many different vocations. Colonel
Vawter asked me if I would like to go to church. I went, and
you may imagine my utter astonishment on reaching the church
to see the man I had already thought overburdened with business
walk into the pulpit and preach a most able sermon. That night
I walked home with a surveyor, landlord, merchant and minis-
ter, but Col. John Vawter was the only man with me.' "
A copy of the inscription on the tombstone of John Vawter at
Morgantown, Ind., follows.' It was composed by John Vawter
himself:
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 43
With all his Titles.
Here lies the remains of
ELDER JOHN VAWTER.
Born in old Virginia —
Jan. 8. — 1782;
Died Aug. 17, 1862;
The effort of his long life as a
Christian was to nourish and build up
The true Christian Church on the
Original Apostolic foundation.
As a statesman he was a progressive
Conservative, believing The state
Legislature held the great material
Interest of the body politic in its
Hands; that the prosperity of the State
In education, agriculture, internal
Improvements, mechanical arts, finance
And commerce could be advanced by
Judicious, or retarded and crypted
By unwise Legislation. —
LETTERS WRITTEN BY JOHN VAWTER TO HIS BROTHER,
WILLIAM VAWTER.
Vernon, 25 October, 1828.
Brother William — I send you by your son $2.56 cts., the
amount of your hauling (by Taylor Vawter). I heard news
when in that was to me unexpected and unpleasant. It was
that you were disposed to absent yourself from meeting and had
done so in one case ; that you had said that some of your friends
were your enemies. If this be true, you are in a state of mind
that is far from enviable; you are, in short, childish and wrong
44 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
and do not know it. My dear brother, it is too hard. Let me
pray you not to reproach your friends by thinking or saying they
are enemies, and above all, not to lessen that favorable station you
hold in the good opinions of your brethren wherever you are
known. It is much easier to lose a good name than to gain it.
You have been laboring for your's upwards of twenty-five years,
and now do not destroy it by any improper course, such as you
may rest assured you will do by absenting yourself from meeting.
I would advise you to ever lie at the feet of your brethren as
the proper place. I have done so for years, otherwise I would
have been expelled from society long ago, for many only wished
me so to act that they might have wherewith to charge me. I
now enjoy much comfort with my brethren, and so may you
should you not want to be chief. You must not ask others to
look through your eyes, and you must remember that the Re-
deemer did not refuse to eat with publicans and sinners, yea,
with one who denied Him, yes, with' one who betrayed Him. All
this is a lesson to proud you and me to do likewise. We are not
to judge hearts, and be assured we have nothing to boast of our-
selves. I have never seen the time when I could not meet with
such as could meet with me, poor me, and could always partake
of the supper with all who could with me.
Let me pray you now, as a brother who truly loves and has
admired your prudent. Christian conduct heretofore, to stop,
pause and think what injury you are doing yourself, how you
are detracting from your own good name and sinking your family
connections by neglecting your solemn church covenant. My
brother, you must fall at the feet of your brethren and there re-
main. I speak freely, because I believe you delight in honesty
and plain dealing, and let no word I say break in on that good
understanding that has so long subsisted between us.
Respectfully, your brother,
John Vawter.
MORGANTOWN, INDIANA, 3d Octobcr, 1 858.
Brother William Vawter — On Saturday morning I left
home for the purpose of coming to see you and family. On arriv-
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 45
ing at Vernon heard you had been able to go about, then went on
to Madison, intending to visit you on Monday. On reaching
Vernon again found you had been able to visit your daughter,
Frances, and finding I could save a day, took the freight train and
went on to Indianapolis. Returned home last evening. While
about, visited Hickman Branham, Newton Vawter, Brother
Jenkins, his mother being there, and Brother James (who sends
you this minute), Brother Abner Moncrief and Brother Wise.
Attended meeting on Sunday at Harbert's Creek in company with
Brother James Vawter and our only two living sisters. Four
out of the six of us now living were together at one time, and
that where father, mother and one sister were buried — a thing
I never expect to occur again in my lifetime.
I heard Brother Henderson preach a sermon which affected
my whole internal man. Oh! it was a soul-stirring sermon,
worthy of being admired by all God's dear children. I do not
suppose I ever will forget it. Brother Thomas Hill was there.
We dined together at Moncrief s, suppered, lodged and break-
fasted together at Matthew Wise's.
We are all well, and so are my children, who are here. Jane
Storey and her Emma are here for to-day, by whom I send you
this letter and minute.
Affectionately yours,
John Vawter.
MoRGANTOWN, INDIANA, 2d February, 1859.
Brother William Vawter — Your letter of the 31st Jan-
uary, 1859, came to hand to-day, for which accept my thanks.
I only got home on Monday evening from my visit and meetings.
I have been for four days and five nights off with a bad cold,
mostly located in my head. It did seem as if my eyes and nose had
the consumption and would waste my whole life away by con-
stant running. Cold brought on by walking from Shelbyville,
some twelve or fourteen miles, after 2 o'clock, to Brother
Hurst's by 7 o'clock. I had to walk, as the Rushville railroad
cars failed that day to make a trip. I went to see my cousin, Sally
Hurst. She is suffering very much with a cough and cold ; looks
46 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
very poor. I very much doubt whether I will ever see her again.
Old Brother Hurst is as well as when I saw him in May last to
, all appearances,
I do not recollect whether I wrote you that I did receive a
letter from Jephtha Vawter not long since. He wrote me fully
about himself, family and children, brothers, sisters and father.
We do commonly write each other about twice a year. It does
me good to hear from him and his friends. They were all in
common good health when he wrote me.
I am sorry you did not write me about Brother Allen Park's
daughter, I am anxious to hear from her, Hope she will do
well. We are generally well here, Hope these lines will find you
and all the friends well or improving at least.
Believe us as ever your friends, yours,
John Vawter.
MORGANTOWN, INDIANA, 1 2th JuUC, 1 862.
Elder William Vawter : Dear Brother — Yours of the
8th instant at hand to-day, for which you have my sincere thanks.
We are glad that you have it in contemplation to visit us, and
hope that health and everything else will favor your effort to
come at the time named in your letter, say the 20th of this month,
I do expect to leave here to-morrow in order to attend meeting
at Amity on Saturday and Sunday next, it being their regular
meeting days. From Amity I will go to Indianapolis, if my
health permits, so as to be at the convention on Wednesday, the
i8th of the month, I may leave Indianapolis for home on
Wednesday evening or Thursday morning, so as to come home
on Thursday the 19th of this month, but my every movement de-
pends on my health.
Since I saw you I have visited Franklin, Indianapolis, Sharps-
ville (saw your granddaughter), Vernon, Columbus and Rush
county. Saw my old cousin, Sally Hurst, She is greatly afflicted
with rheumatism. Old Brother Hurst is suffering, as I am, with
continual pain in the head. Emmons, his son, is afflicted with a
bad disease of the throat, bronchitis I do suppose. Daniel Web-
ster Pearce came home from Franklin two or three days since.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 47
down with chills and fever. Our last news from Thomas Allen
Pearce he was well and near Corinth in Mississippi. He says
all our boys that went from here with him are well. I do not
know where the Story boys are now. The last accounts they
were in Missouri. It is said that our boys that went from here
and wintered on the Potomac (a part of them) failed to stand
up to the work at Winchester in the late retreat under Banks.
Banks deserves great credit for having managed his retreat so
well.
Will you write us if anything intervenes to prevent your com-
ing? Friends here all well.
I am, as ever, your friend and brother,
John Vawter.
I.
JOHN VAWTER5
(Jesse*, Davids John'S Johni)
(1782-1862)
m. ist
POLLY SMITH
(1781-1825)
Children"
I. Smith Vawterm.
ist Jane Terrell
ad Elizabeth
Smith
3d Spicy Car-
roll
Grandchildren''
(i) JohnT. Vaw-
ter m.
Jane V. Storey
(2) Hickman N.,
d. s.
G. Grandchil-
dren'
Clara (adopted) ra.
Lafayette Pence
G. G. Grandchil-
dren*
^ Lafayette Vawter
r (3) Samuel m.
J Maria Bright
I (4) Mary Jane, d.s.
(5) Edwin, d. s.
(6) Emily m.
Dr. Beechly
C Irene m.
George Banta
Mary J. m,
Isaac N. Smith
Charles B. m.
Mrs. Leila
Hunter
Jennie m.
John Jenkins
4th Huldah
Kendricks
5th Mrs. Sarah
G. Maynard
(7) Sarah m.
Elijah Read
(8) Ezra, d. s.
[^ (9) George, d. s.
f (10) Smith K. m.
Mary Brown
(11) Hattie Lilly,
d.s.
(12) Carrie m.
George Rowan
' Virginia m.
Wm. Reamer
Alice, d. s.
Smith H. m.
Daisy Belle m.
Pearly Sprague
Bert m.
Alice Richcrick
Edna
John
(^ Louise
Vawter
Maria, d.
Clara, d.
Frank
Milton V.
No Children
Carrie
Virginia
Vawter, d.
Roscoe
Virginia
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
49
2. Jane Vawter
(1809-1864)
m.
Thos. J.Storey
(1796-1878)
(i) John V. Storey
m. 1st
Mary J. Storey
2d
Mrs. A. Moore
(2) Emily, d. s.
(3) Mary ra.
John T. Vawter
(4) Smith Wm. m.
ist
Martha Wise
2d
Lena Carlisle
(5) David, d. s.
(6) Thomas Henry
m.
Titia Sharp
' Martha Jane m.
J. L. Smith
Wm. David, d. s.
Ezra
I Cora V.
j Frank, d. s.
L Charles
I No children
( Clara (adopted) m.
/ Lafayette Pence
Kate m.
Lincoln Dixon
Blanche
Smith Wm., Jr.
r Cora Edith m.
Shaw
Walter
Alma
Elmer
Roy
, Emma
(7) James Mar-
shall m.
Lucia Barnum
(8) Riley Clark m.
Rose Schaefer
(9) George W. m.
ist
Hepsiejohnson
2d
Alice Stone-
brook
(10) Emma Julia
m.
Daniel Latti-
more
Lafayette Vawter
Esther Claire
Donald Storey
L Dorothy
I
r
-{ No children
L
' Guy
Grace m.
Thos. Larkins
John T. m.
Meta Mella
Oscar Sears
^ Infant, d.
Thos. Andrew m.
Olive Hamilton
r
■{ Smith William
I
' John V.
Ralph G.,d.
Mabel Emma
. Frances C.
Mabel V. (adopted)
m.
Willis Bradley
Speare
Storey
Elizabeth
Margaret H.
50
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
3. EmilyVawter
(1814-1877)
m.
Allan Campbell
(1808-1881)
f (i) Mary, d. 8.
(2) Smith Vawter
m.
Carrie S. Davis
John m.
Margaret Coan
Emily D. m.
Edward F. Wol-
fart
James Burt, s.
Sarah Scott m.
Geo. B. Baker
Vernon Otterman
(3) Solon B. m.
Carolyn Otter- -
man
Mary
Carrie Margaret
Janice Findus
Hazel
Joseph Allan
Garnette Carolyn
Glenn Solon
Kemper Bramwell
^ Gladys
(4) JohnD. m. j Several children
JOHN VAWTER
m. 2d
JANE SMITH
(No children)
JOHN VAWTER
m. 3d
RUTH MINTON
(1817-1850)
4. Marion Vawter
(1830-1880)
m.
Rebecca Mahafy
(1832 )
(i) Charles Minton
ra.
ist
Carrie Tim-
mons
Fred Allan ra.
Stella Crichlow
2d \ Eva May, d.
Alice Campbell / Maud
(2) Wm. Riley m.
Emma Ketcham
(3) Mary E. m.
Richard Dun-
ning
(4) Jesse Segal m
Ella Brown
i
No children
Carrie, d.
Earl Raymond
Tillie Allan
Luella, d.
George
Grace
15
Charles Desmond
esse
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5t
5, Mary A. Vawter
(1836-1897)
m.
George Obenshain
(i) Martha Jane m.
Joseph L. Fes-
ler
(2) John W., d. s.
(3) Smith, d. s.
(4) Emma V. m.
John W. Hilton
(5) Carrie, d. s.
(6) Frank Allan m.
Berda M.Ream
(7) Ruth m.
Spencer H.
Wood
Carrie A. m.
Emerson Wood
Timothy C. ra.
Lulu Coleman
Susie C.
Jennie A., d. s.
Fred E.
James Leon
Esther, d.
(I)
Frank Day m.
Laura E. Smart
6. Allan Vawter
(1833-1874)
m.
Catherine Hickey
(1837-1895)
(2) Ida Ruth, d. s.
i (3)
(4)
Elmer m.
Margaret Saw-
yer
Lillian Lincoln
m.
Thos. Lafay-
ette Smith
i Harold H.
I
Clarence Allan m.
Jennie Moore
John Elmer
Francis Bertram
Willie Belle
Ella Mae
Horace Raymond
Nellie Bly
Catherine
I Alice Pearl
Ralph Emerson
Raymond
Mary Ruth
Frank
Dewey
Martha Clarice
Paul Leon
Thomas Allan
(5)
Cora m.
Whitfield
Yeager
"I No children
JOHN VAWTER
m. 4th.
7. Emma, d. s.
MRS. MARTHA PEARCE
(1822-1892)
52 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Smith Vawter
Smith Vawter, the son of John and Polly (Smith) Vawter,
was born in Scott county, Kentucky, November 3, 1806. His
father was born in Orange county, Virginia, and his mother was
born in Pennsylvania. His father's family moved to Indiana
Territory in 1807, making the first encampment near where the
railroad roundhouse now stands in North Madison. Smith
Vawter lived in Madison for eight years and then moved with
his father to Vernon. He rose from ensign to the command of
the Twenty-first Regiment Indiana Militia; was elected sheriff
in 1834; county commissioner in 1848, and again in 1856; was a
representative in the lower house of the Indiana legislature from
Jennings county in the sessions of 1848 and 1856; was the joint
representative from Jennings and Scott counties in the session
of 1878-9; was the joint representative from Jefferson and Jen-
nings counties in the session of 1879-80. He was one of the
trustees of the Agricultural Fund (Purdue University) for five
years; was a merchant and a farmer for more than forty years,
and for the last years of his life was credited with occupying his
time principally with paying security debts for his friends. He
also gave much to charity. (Almost all of the above was taken
from Biographical Sketches of Members of the Indiana State
Government of 1879-80.)
Col. Smith Vawter was a peculiar character, as was his father
before him, but all the more interesting on that account. Lewis
Wagner, of Vernon, who knew Smith Vawter well and married
one of his cousins, said : "The older Vawters were all peculiar
people and very stubborn, but good, honest people — people one
could depend on."
"Smith Vawter was a pork packer, a dry goods merchant, had
a woolen mill and also a flouring mill. He used to slaughter hogs
which ran wild in the woods about Vernon, put them on a flat-
boat and take them to New Orleans and trade for molasses and
other groceries. It took weeks and weeks to go to New Orleans
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
53
then. Afterwards Colonel Vawter owned a steamboat. He was
exceedingly fond of corn bread, and on one trip to New Orleans
the bread gave out. Smith Vawter stopped the boat and went
off in the woods to see if he couldn't find some corn bread at a
near-by house. He was gone so long that the men grew uneasy
and went to look for him. They found him sitting in front of a
cabin waiting for a darky to bake some bread. Four hours of
time for every one on the steamboat was lost while Colonel Vaw-
ter secured his corn bread. It was said that when he went to
the legislature at Indianapolis he always took his corn bread
with him."
Smith Vawter was very independent. He did not like to be
under obligations to any one. He never would accept a railroad
pass. He never sought office for himself, but liked to be con-
sulted about plans for others. During the Civil War he spent
much of his money and time in helping the wives and children
of those who went to the front.
When Col. Smith Vawter lived on the farm across the creek
from Vernon he was at one time sick. He wanted some medi-
cine. He asked some one to go and get it for him. The creek
was very high and the one asked said it wouldn't be safe to try
to cross it. That made Colonel Vawter angry, and he got up,
went to the barn, mounted his old mouse-colored horse, swam the
creek and got his own medicine.
When Richard Stott had a tannery not far from the farm of
Smith Vawter his hogs kept coming over on Mr. Vawter's farm
and annoying him. His darky said : "Wat you-all gwyin' do wid
dose hogs?" "Shoot 'em, shoot 'em, shoot 'em!" said Colonel
Vawter, "I'll pay for them." The darky did shoot them, and
Smith Vawter paid for them without a word.
"When Colonel Vawter was in Indianapolis attending the
sessions of the legislature he was walking along near the Circle
late at night. A man stepped up very close to him and said:
'Could you tell me the time?' Colonel Vawter thought the man
mtended to steal his watch. He stepped back toward the lamp-
post, raised his cane, which was very heavy, and said: 'Yes. sir;
54 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
it is time both you and I were in bed.' The man seemed to agree
with him, for he was not slow about moving on."
Smith Vawter was married five times and had twelve children.
He was married first, April 21, 1829, to Jane Terrell. Their
children were John Terrell Vawter and Hickman N. Vawter.
Jane (Terrell) Vawter was born January 15, 1811; died Sep-
tember 29, 1834.
(i) John Terrell Vawter, son of Smith and Jane (Terrell)
Vawter, was born January 15, 1830, in Vernon, Indiana. At
the age of seventeen he was employed as a salesman in his father's
store of general merchandise at $16 per month, he to board him-
self. When nineteen years old his salary was raised to $20 per
month. He remained in his father's employ until August, 1851,
when, with S. W. Storey (his wife's brother), he opened a drug
store in Franklin. Mr. Storey only remained until the follow-
ing February, John T. Vawter continuing the business for about
sixteen years, then selling a part interest to Mr. Ephraim Jefifry.
In 1869 John T. Vawter sold his interest in the drug store to Mr.
McCoy, and with George F. Harriott built and operated a large
pork-house in Franklin. After two years they took Messrs. Bran-
agan and Featheringill into the firm. In 1876 the business was
discontinued, John T. Vawter going to his farm at Vawter Park,
in Northern Indiana. From the year 1859 he was in the Indiana
Farmers' Bank for some time, and afterwards, for twenty years,
in the Second National Bank of Franklin. On the expiration of
the charter he, with others, organized the Franklin Bank. In
1884 he was elected president of the Franklin Bank and accepted
the position for three years only and on condition that he be given
the privilege of converting it into a national bank, which was
done in May, 1885. He is the largest stockholder in said Frank-
lin National Bank and also one of the directors.
John T. Vawter 'once kept seven sets of books at the same time
in Franklin. He was a good penman, quick in figures and not
given to making mistakes. His father was the same, and the
Terrells, on his mother's side, were experts, Gen. W. H. H. Ter-
rell perhaps the best.
John T. Vawter was married in 1850 to his cousin Mary Story,
P
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 55
who was born April 21, 1831. They had no children of their
own, but in the year 1862 they took a little girl whose mother
was dead, and later on adopted her. Smith Vawter, the father
of John, thought a great deal of the father and mother of the
child and wished his son to take her. The child was known as
Clara Vawter. She attended Franklin High School, then Butler
College, at Irvington, and finally, in 1880, the Female College at
Oxford, Ohio. She was married December 22, 1881, to Lafayette
Pence, and died in Denver, Colorado, December 17, 1885. Her
husband, who was born and reared in Columbus, Indiana, was at
the time of her death a member of the state legislature of Colo-
rado, and since her death has been a member of congress. Clara
Vawter Pence left only one living child, Lafayette Vawter Pence,
who was born March 14, 1884, and who is now pursuing his
studies in Ilion, New York.
John T. Vawter has been a member of the Church of Christ
in Vernon, and now in Franklin, for about sixty years. His
wife died March 4, 1900. If living she would have been a mem-
ber for about the same length of time. His daughter, Clara,
united with the Church of Christ when fourteen years of age.
(2) Hickman N., son of Smith and Jane (Terrell) Vawter,
was born July 9, 1832. He was graduated at Hanover at about
sixteen or seventeen years of age. He was of a very daring dis-
position and something of a rover. His father was remonstrating
with him one day because he did not stay in the same place, and
said : "My son, you know the rolling stone gathers no moss."
"No," replied the son, "nor does the setting hen grow fat."
Lewis Wagner, of Vernon, who knew Hickman well, said that
he was very brilliant anl also very proud. He wrote a paper
called the "Man About Town" and printed it. Once a month it
was tacked up on the trees and public buildings. The people were
very curious about it, but for many months were unable to find
out who did it.
One evening Hickman asked a young woman of Vernon to
allow him to take her home from church. She refused. He was
very much astonished and said over and over to Lewis Wagner :
"Well, now, what do you think of that? A harnessmaker's
56 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
daughter refuses to walk home with Col. Smith Vawter's son."
Hickman Vawter died at the age of twenty-two years.
Smith Vaivter's second wife was his cousin, Elizabeth Smith.
They were married January 8, 1835. Elizabeth S. Vawter was
born in 1806 and died February 2, 1839. Their children were
Samuel and Mary Jane.
(3) Samuel Logan, son of Smith and Elizabeth Vawter, was
born January 20, 1836, at Vernon, Indiana. When quite a boy
he clerked in the drug store of his brother, John T. Vawter, in
Franklin, Indiana. A few years later, he bought a drug store at
Martinsville, Indiana. In the year 1859 he went to St. Anthony,
Minnesota, where he owned a drug store. In a few years he and
his partner moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, where they started
the first wholesale drug house in the northwest. Samuel Vawter
was married December 16, 1856, at Franklin, Indiana, to Maria
L. Bright, who was born at Franklin, March 18, 1837. Their
children were Irene, Mary and Charles. Samuel Vawter died Jan-
uary 15, 1868.
a. Irene E. Vawter, daughter of Samuel and Maria B. Vaw-
ter, was born in Martinsville, Indiana, September 24, 1857. She
was married October 17, 1878, at Franklin, Indiana, to George
Caldwell Banta. Mr. Banta was born at Hopewell, Indiana, and
has lived there all of his life, except ten years which were spent
in Franklin in the drug business. The children of George and
Irene Banta were :
(a) Maria, born February 8, 1880; died July 11, 1880, at
Franklin, Indiana.
(b) Clara Vawter, born September 13, 1881 ; died February
23, 1903, at Hopewell. Indiana.
(c) Frank Caldwell, born December 8, 1883, at Franklin, In-
diana. Is attending Purdue University at Lafayette, Indiana.
Mr. and Mrs. George Banta are living at Hopewell, Indiana.
Their postoffice is Franklin, Indiana.
h. Mary J., second daughter of Samuel and Maria Bright
Vawter, was born in Martinsville, Indiana, April 25, 1859, mar-
ried June 29, 1897, to Isaac Newton Smith. They have one son,
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 57
Milton Vawter Smith, who was born in Springville, Utah, Jan-
uary 30, 1899.
Mr. Smith, who was born in Lewistown, Indiana, January i6,
1859, is principal of the New Jersey Academy, Logan, Utah. The
school is under the direction of the Home Mission Board of the
Presbyterian Church.
c. Charles Bright Vawter, son of Samuel and Maria B. Vaw-
ter, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 29, 1862. He
was married April 18, 1888, to Mrs. Leila Hunter Holman, who
was born October 20. 1855. No children. Leila H. Vawter died
June 7, 1 90 1.
Charles Bright Vawter is a member of the firm of Duncan &
Vawter, hardware dealers of Franklin. Indiana.
(4) Mary Jane, daughter of Smith and Elizabeth Vawter,
was born August 14, 1837, and died February 6, 1861.
Smith Vawter's third wife was Spicy Carroll, to whom he was
married January 28, 1840. Their children were Edwin, Emily,
Sarah, Ezra and George. Spicy (Carroll) Vawter was born Feb-
ruary 25, 1817, and died July 30, 1848.
(5) Edwin, son of Smith and Spicy (Carroll) Vawter, was
born January 19, 1841 ; died in 1854.
(6) Emily, daughter of Smith and Spicy (Carroll) Vawter.
was born March 24, 1842. She was married to Dr. Beechly of
Bridgeport, Indiana. Their children were Jennie and an infant
who died at birth. Jennie was married to John Jenkins of Lin-
coln, Nebraska, and lived at Danville, Illinois. There were three
children born to John and Jennie Jenkins : Carrie, born in 1889,,
Virginia, born in 1892 and a boy, Vawter, who died at about two
years of age. John and Jennie Jenkins are both dead. The two
children are living at Danville, Illinois.
(7) Sarah, daughter of Smith and Spicy (Carroll) Vawter,
was born September 18, 1843; married May 31, 1864, to Elijah
T. Read, who was born in Vernon, Indiana, December 24, 1841.
They live in Oswego, Kansas, where Mr. Read has been until
recently engaged in the hardware business. Children :
a. Virginia, born April 26, 1865 ; married November 11, 1885,
in Oswego, Kansas, to William Stewart Reamer, who was born
58 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
March 4, i860. They live in Oswego, Kansas. Their children are
Roscoe Read, born August 10, 1891, and Virginia Katherine,
born May 30, 1894.
b. Alice, born December 28, 1867; died October 23, 1869.
c. Smith H., born September 23, 1869, and married in Lacon,
Illinois, June 6, 1900, to Mabel Adams. Lives at 3046 Walnut
street, Kansas City, Missouri.
d. Daisy Belle, born April 23, 1872; married October 11,
1896, in Oswego, Kansas, to Pearly J. Sprague. No children.
They live in Gashland, Missouri.
e. Bert, born December 9, 1874; married September 24, 1902,
to Alice Richcrick. Lives in Sparks, Oklahoma.
(8) Ezra, son of Smith and Spicy (Carroll) Vawter, was
born July 9, 1845, and died in 1846.
(9) George, the son of Smith and Spicy (Carroll) Vawter,
was born July 18, 1847, and died in 1848.
Smith Vazvter married, fourth, December 24, 1848, Huldah
Kendricks, who was born November 13, 1826; died March 31,
1859. Their children were Smith K. and Hattie Lilly.
(10) Smith K., son of Smith and Huldah (Kendricks) Vaw-
ter, was born October 11, 1849; married to Mary A. Brown in
1873. Their children were: a. Edna, born July 20, 1876; b. John
T., born September 20, 1878; c. Louise, born April 5, 1883.
Smith K. Vawter lived in Vernon, Indiana, but for some years
before his death lived at Vawter Park, Indiana, where he died
in his fifty-second year. Mrs. Smith Vawter and her children live
at Vernon in the winter and at Vawter Park in the summer.
Edna, the elder daughter, has been teaching in Vernon. John T.
is preparing himself at Champaign, Illinois, to be an architect.
He also studied at Purdue.
(11) Hattie Lilly, daughter of Smith and Huldah (Ken-
dricks) Vawter, died in childhood.
Huldah (Kendricks) Vawter was born November 13, 1826,
and died March 31, 1859.
Smith Vazvter married fifth, December 1859, Mrs. Sarah Grif-
fith Maynard, who was born at Steubenville, Ohio, December 29,
181 7; died September 7, 1892. They had one child, Carrie, who
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married George Rowan and has one son, Vawter Rowan. Mrs.
Rowan lives with her half-sister, Mrs. Maggie Hutchings, of
Kokomo, Indiana.
Smith Vazvter died in Vernon, April lo, 1882.
Jane (Vawter) Storey
Jane, daughter of John and Polly (Smith) Vawter, was born
July 17. 1809, in Kentucky, and was married June 25, 1825, to
Thomas J. Storey, the son of John Storey. John Storey was of
Irish parentage. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and
also in the War of 1812. He had a large family of children, many
of them sons, and all of these were soldiers at one time or an-
other. Thomas J. Storey, his son, was in the War of 181 2. He
enlisted at Georgetown. Kentucky, in a volunteer company com-
manded by Captain Metcalf, and at once went into active military
service. He was in the battle fought near the foot of the rapids
of the Maumee river, in which Colonel Dudley, commanding, was
overpowered by the combined British and Indian forces under
Procter and Tecumseh. Out of a regiment of nearly one thou-
sand as brave men as ever marched from Kentucky less than one
hundred and fifty made good their retreat to a place of safety
by a column charge through the lines of the enemy. All the rest
were scalped, tomahawked, butchered and burned by the Indians.
Subsequent to this Mr. Storey was in the battles and sorties in-
cident to the siege of Fort Meigs and at the close of the war in
the Northwest he was honorably discharged.
After the return of Thomas Storey from the War of 181 2, he
was married to Miss Span, Vv'ho lived only a year, dying at the
birth of a daughter, who lived to be three years old. Thomas
Storey then settled in Vernon, Indiana, about the year 1820, as
a house builder. There he met Jane Vawter, with whom he fell
in love. It was soon after the death of her mother, and the pro-
posal of the young widower was met with a decided refusal, as
the loving daughter was "going to stay with father and care for
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and comfort him forever," It was not long, however, until the
father sought comfort elsewhere, and Jane, meeting her quondam
lover after the announcement of her father's coming marriage,
whispered rather sadly: "Mr. Storey, if you have not changed
your mind, I — I have mine." Her extreme modesty and shy re-
serve made these words seem so out of keeping with her character
that they have been remembered. Their marriage was a happy
one and their lives, looked back upon, seem uneventful. They
lived for their children and tried to teach them to love God and
their country. Three of the boys were in the army of the North,
and any soldier in need of a home was always made welcome at
Thomas Storey's. The mother's dying words were a prayer for
country and children. Jane ( Vawter) Storey died March 8, 1864.
Thomas Storey was married, third, to Miss Louisa Hall of
Madison, Indiana, in 1867. She is now living in Vernon. Mr.
Storey died July 16, 1878, at the age of eighty-two years, an old
man, still full of interest in all current events.
Thomas J. and Jane (Vawter) Storey had ten children : John,
Emily, Mary, Smith William, David, Thomas Henry, James
Marshall, Riley Clark, George W. and Emma Julia.
(i) John Vawter Storey, son of Thomas J. and Jane (Vaw-
ter) Storey, was born December 17, 1826, and was married
March 15, 1846, in Vernon, at the home of Col. John Vawter,
his grandfather, to his cousin Mary Jane Storey, of Warsaw,
Kentucky. Mary Jane Storey, his wife, was born in Mount Ster-
ling, Kentucky, December 29, 1824, and died September 2^, 1891.
They had six children : Martha Jane, William David, Ezra, Cora
v., Frank and Charles.
a. Martha Jane, daughter of John V. and Mary Jane Storey,
was born August 31, 1847, and was married to J. L. Smith, of
Richmond, Indiana, December 13, 1870. Children: Cora Edith,
born September 10, 1871 ; married to Mr. Shaw of Richmond,
Indiana, June 26, 1894; Walter G., born December 26, 1872;
died January 8, 1893; Alma, born October 7, 1874; Elmer, born
June 22, 1880; Roy, born June 21, 1882; Emma, born February
II, 1880.
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b. William David, son of John V. and Mary Storey, was born
June 31, 1849, ^^^ died February 27, 1900.
c. Ezra, son of John V. and Mary Storey, was born October
8, 1853.
d. Cora V., daughter of John V. and Mary Storey, born
August 15, 1855.
e. Frank, son of John V. and Mary Storey, was born Decem-
ber 13, 1856, and died January 11, 1896.
/. Charles, son of John V. and Mary Storey, was born Oc-
tober 16, 1859.
John V. Storey was married, second, to Mrs. Addie Moore of
Bartholomew, Indiana, November 28, 1874. Mr. Storey began
his business career as a druggist. Is now retired. He and his wife
live at Columbus, Indiana.
(2) Emily Vawter Storey, daughter of Thomas J. and Jane
(Vawter) Storey, was born December 12, 1828, and died July
20, 1842.
(3) Mary Vawter Storey, daughter of Thomas J. and Jane
(Vawter) Storey, was born April 21, 1831 ; married in 1850 to
John T. Vawter; died March 21, 1900. No children.
(4) Smith William, son of Thomas J. and Jane (Vawter)
Storey, was born in Vernon, Indiana, December 23, 1833. While
a mere youth, he made the overland trip to the Pacific, driving
an ox wagon, and for several years endured the hardships and
dangers of a frontiersman and miner in California and Oregon.
Returning to Vernon, he engaged in the drug business, in which
he continued until his death. S. William Storey was an elder in
the Vernon Presbyterian Church ; was superintendent of the Sun-
day-school for twenty-five years ; was an organizer and promoter
of the first bank in Vernon; was a director, and from 1895 until
his death was president of the First National Bank. He was mar-
ried May 17, i860, to Martha E. Wise, who was the daughter of
Copeland, the son of Matthew and Julia (Vawter) Wise. There
was one daughter, Kate, who was born October 8, 1861, and mar-
ried October 16, 1884, to Lincoln Dixon. Mr. Dixon was bom
February 9, i860, and is an attorney-at-law of North Vernon,
Indiana, and has recently been elected to congress.
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Children of Lincoln and Kate (Storey) Dixon : Esther Claire,
born December i6, 1887; Donald Storey, born October 6, 1890;
Dorothy, born April 3, 1900.
Martha W. Storey, the wife of S. William Storey, died August
28, 1889. She was a woman of great loveliness of character, and
is remembered with the sincerest affection by her many friends.
S. William Storey was married, second, to Lena Carlisle, De-
cember II, 1890. Lena Carlisle was born June 10, 1864. Chil-
dren: Blanche, born September 14, 1891, and S. William, Jr.,
born December 2^, 1893.
S. William Storey died October 7, 1903.
(5) David, son of Thomas J. and Jane (Vawter) Storey, was
born June 2^, 1836, and died December 5, 1842.
(6) Thomas Henry Storey, son of Thomas J. and Jane
(Vawter) Storey, was born July 18, 1838, and was married to
Titia Sharp in Kansas in 1881. No children. Thomas H. Storey
had a stroke of paralysis during the last year of the Civil War and
was discharged on account of it, never entirely recovering from
the effects. He was totally blind for eight years before his death,
which occurred January 23, 1890. His widow is living.
(7) James Marshall, son of Thomas J. and Jane (Vawter)
Storey, was born in Vernon, Lidiana, October 17, 1840. During
the Civil War he was mustered into service as a private of Com-
pany H, Twenty-sixth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, August 3,
1861 ; was made sergeant of company June 2^, 1862; lieutenant,
July 20, 1863; captain, June 19, 1865. He was aide-de-camp to
Brigadier General Vandiver from July 25, 1863 to October 14,
1863; served under Gen. Fremont, in his campaign in Missouri
in 1862, after the rebel Gen. Price was wounded in the forehead
at the battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas, December 7, 1862; was
in the siege of Vicksburg; the taking of Brownsville, Texas, in
the latter part of 1863 ; the siege of Spanish Fort from investment
to capitulation April 9, 1865; the taking of Montgomery, Ala-
bama, April 25, 1865. He was mustered out of service at Vicks-
burg, Mississippi, January 15, 1866. After the war J. M. Storey
went into the hardware business in Indianapolis, afterwards going
to Franklin, Indiana, where he owns the "Up-Town House."
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J. Marshall Storey was married April 21, 1864, to Lucia Bar-
num, who was born April 23, 1843.
Children :
a. Guy, born February 12, 1867.
h. Grace, born September 22, 1869 ; married April 29. 1896,
to Thomas Larkins, of Indianapolis, Indiana. One
child, Storey, born April 29, 1897.
c. John T., born September 22, 1872; married March 13,
1902, to Meta Mella, born 1879. One child, Elizabeth,
born November 23, 1903.
d. Oscar Sears, born February 12, 1880.
e. Infant, born and died in 1886.
(8) Riley Clark Storey, son of Thomas J. and Jane (Vawter)
Storey, was born December 18, 1842, in Vernon, Indiana. As a
lad he was a book-lover and of a studious disposition. It is said
that he left home at one time to follow a favorite teacher to In-
dianapolis, where he sold papers in order to pay his tuition and
other expenses. He was in college at Franklin, Indiana, when
the war broke out. He enlisted in the Eighteenth Indiana Volun-
teers. The forced marches, exposure to rain and snow and sleep-
ing on the wet ground were too severe for him. He was honor-
ably discharged January 17, 1863, a sick man. and suffered during
the rest of his life from rheumatism and kindred troubles. After
his discharge he entered the University of Michigan and grad-
uated from that institution with the famous class of '69. While
in the university he, with others, organized the local chapter of
the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. After graduating, he entered a
law school in Indianapolis, from which he received the degree of
LL. B. later.
Riley C. Storey was married March 30, 1874, to Rose Mar-
garet Shaefer, who was born August 8, 1857, in Patriot, Indiana.
At the time of his marriage Riley Storey was in the United States
revenue service and had some serious experiences with various
offenders of the law. Afterwards he was for six years superin-
tendent of schools of Cowley county, Kansas. After a number
of changes, he was principal of the public schools of Golden Hill,
Nevada, for eight years. He was then principal of schools in
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Gilroy, California, for two years. His health failing, he joined
his son in 1899, who was a teacher in Stanford University. He
died on the seventeenth of September, 1902.
a. Thomas Andrew Storey, son of Riley Clark and Rose
(Shaefer) Storey, was born January 29, 1875; married June 26,
1899, to Parnie Olive Hamilton, who was born in the San Joa-
quin Valley, California, August 21, 1874.
Thomas Andrew Storey is a teacher in Leland Stanford Uni-
versity. He is now on leave of absence and will spend a year in
Boston, completing the work required for the degree of M. D., in
the Harvard Medical School. He will then return to Stanford
University.
(a) Margaret Hamilton Storey, daughter of Thomas Andrew
and Parnie (Hamilton) Storey, was born July 31, 1900.
(9) George W. Storey, son of Thomas J. and Jane (Vawter)
Storey, was born July 6, 1845 ! married in 1867 to Hepsie John-
son. A son. Smith William Storey, was born in 1869, and is now
living in Kansas.
George W. Storey married, second, Alice Stonebrook, August
30, 1893. Alice Stonebrook was born March 9, 1863.
Children :
a. John v., born July 31, 1894.
b. Ralph G., born March 23. 1897; died May 12, 1898.
c. Mabel Emma, born October 14, 1898.
d. Frances C, born May 2, 1903.
George W. Storey began life as a druggist, then went south
as a planter, and is now a farmer living at Jelloway, Ohio.
(10) Emma Julia, daughter of Thomas and Jane (Vawter)
Storey, was born May 2, 1848, in Vernon, Indiana; married
March 19, 1867, to Daniel Lattimore. One child, Mabel Vawter
Lattimore, was born April 25, 1876, at Washington, D. C. ; mar-
ried March 28, 1904, to Willis Bradley Speare.
Daniel E. Lattimore was born in Vernon, Indiana, February
2^, 1846. He was the son of a Presbyterian minister. Has been
a clerk in the surgeon general's office in the War Department for
thirty-four years. Lives at 1529 Corcoran street, Washington,
D. C.
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Emily (Vawter) Campbell
Emily Vawter, daughter of John and Polly Smith Vawter,
was born May i6, 1814; married to Allan Campbell in 1829; died
July 8, 1877.
Allan Campbell was born in Scott county, Kentucky, a few
miles from Frankfort, January 31, 1808, and in the winter of
1 8 16- 1 7, with his father, moved to Jennings county, Indiana.
Allan Campbell was a farmer and lived for many years on his
farm near Vernon, Indiana. He died in Maryville, Missouri, May
15, 1 88 1. There were four children : Mary, Smith Vawter, Solon
B. and John D.
( 1 ) Mary, died in youth.
(2) Smith Vaw^ter Campbell, son of Allan and Emily Vawter
Campbell, was born on the farm near Vernon, Jennings county,
Indiana, August 26, 1832. He attended school at Ann Arbor,
Michigan, graduating in medicine in the early fifties, and settled
for the practice of his profession in Lebanon, Indiana. Here he
was married to Carrie Steele Davis, daughter of Dr. William P.
Davis, in 1854. Soon afterward he moved to Des Moines, Iowa,
where he entered into active practice. When the war broke out
he offered his services; was commissioned assistant surgeon of
the Twenty-third Iowa Volunteer Infantry and served four years
and six months. After the close of the war he moved to Adel,
Iowa, and, in 1878, to Maryville, Missouri, and practiced medi-
cine. He died in 1902.
Carrie Davis Campbell was born May 13, 1836, in Boone
county, Indiana; died July 2, 1895.
The children of Smith Vawter and Carrie Davis Campbell
were : John, Emily, James Burt and Sarah Scott.
a. John S., son of Smith V. and Carrie D. Campbell, was
born March 17, 1863, and was married in May, 1886, to Margaret
Coan, who was born in Westport (now Kansas City), Missouri,
in May, 1863. They have one child, Mary, who was born August,
1888.
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John Campbell is general solicitor for the Smith-McChord-
Townsend Wholesale Dry Goods Company and lives in Kansas
City, Missouri.
b. Emily D., daughter of Smith V. and Carrie D. Campbell,
was born in Adel, Iowa, February 20, 1866, and was married to
Edward F. Wolfert, October 30, 1890. Edward F. Wolfert was
born in Burlington, Iowa, March 21, i860. He is a carriage
manufacturer of Maryville, Missouri.
c. James Burt, son of Smith V. and Carrie D. Campbell, was
born November 17, 1867, in Adel, Iowa. He is unmarried and
living in Maryville, Missouri. Has business interests in Alaska
and in the west,
d. Sarah Scott, daughter of Smith V. and Carrie D. Campbell,
was born in Adel, Iowa, October 25, 1872, and was married on
October 12, 1892, to George B. Baker, who was born in Mary-
ville, Missouri, February 19, 1870. They have one child, Carrie
Margaret, born June 21, 1896. George B. Baker is engaged in
the banking business in Maryville, Missouri.
(3) Solon B. Campbell, son of Allan and Emily Vawter
Campbell, was born in Vernon, Indiana, November 29, 1839;
married in DeSoto, Iowa, February 25, 1874, to Carolyn Otter-
man, who was born in Thorntown, Indiana.
Solon B. Campbell was a druggist and a physician, practicing
for twenty-five years in Adel, Iowa. He enlisted during the Civil
War in Company D, One Hundred and Thirty-second Regiment.
Was discharged on account of ill health. Died in Adel, Iowa,
July 31, 1893.
Children of Solon B. and Carolyn Otterman Campbell :
a. Vernon Campbell, born March 30, 1875 ; married to Janice
Findus, January 24, 1903, in San Francisco. They live in Los
Angeles, California. Vernon Campbell is in the olive business.
He is secretary, manager and treasurer of a large olive canning
factory located in Los Angeles. The company cans ripe olives
and makes olive oil, having made twenty-five thousand gallons
of oil last year.
b. Hazel Campbell, born October 4, 1876.
c. Joseph Allan Campbell, born January 14, 1878,
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d. Garnette Carolyn, born July i, 1879.
e. Glenn Solon, born July i, 1879; died in February, 1880.
/. Kemper Bramwell Campbell, born July 5, 1881.
g. Gladys Campbell, born July 11, 1886.
Joseph and Kemper Campbell are operating a vegetable can-
nery in Moneta, California.
Mrs. Campbell and all of the children except Vernon, live in
Moneta, California, ten miles from Los Angeles.
(4) John D., son of Allan and Emily Vawter Campbell, was
born in Vernon, Indiana; died in Georgia, where he had gone
for his health. He left a wife and a number of children.
4
Marion Vawter
Marion Vawter, son of John and Ruth (Minton) Vawter, was
born November 30, 1830, at Vernon. Indiana. When about
eighteen or twenty years of age he, with his father, his brother
and sister, moved to Morgantown, Indiana. His early employ-
ment was as roadmaster of the Franklin and Martinsville Rail-
road. He moved, with his family, to Indianapolis in i860, and
w^as employed in the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad machine
shops for four or five years, having charge of the shops the last
two years. In 1865 the road was consolidated with the Jefferson-
ville Railroad, and Marion Vawter then secured a position in the
Eagle machine shops for a short time, then with D. Root & Co.,
foundry and machine shops, where he was employed several
years. He resigned from this position, and with Benjamin J.
Smith, former master mechanic of the Madison and Indianapolis
Railroad, started a machine and repair shop at Spencer, Indiana.
This venture did not prove a success, and he returned to D. Root
& Co., and afterwards to the Sinker, Davis & Co. machine shops,
where he was employed until his death in 1880.
Marion Vawter was married January 28, 1851, at Morgan-
town, Indiana, to Rebecca Mahafy, who was born March 6, 1832,
in Maryville, Ohio, and is now living at Lafayette, Indiana. Their
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children were: (i) Charles Minton; (2) William Riley; (3)
Mary Emily, and (4) Jesse Segal.
(i) Charles Minton Vawter, son of Marion and Rebecca
(Mahafy) Vawter, was born at Morgantown, Indiana, February
28, 1853. Charles Vawter probably is acquainted with more of
the Vawter relatives than any other one in the whole connection.
He has been greatly interested in the history of the Vawter fam-
ily, and to him is due the preservation of much of the history of
his grandfather which has been given in this account.
A short sketch of Charles M. Vawter, taken from a letter writ-
ten by himself, is here reproduced.
"I, Charles Minton Vawter, moved from Morgantown, In-
diana, with my father, to Indianapolis, in i860, and attended the
public schools there until 1865 or 1866. I then secured employ-
ment with my uncle, John Allan Vawter, on his huckster wagon,
which ran between Indianapolis and Morgantown. While with
my uncle I formed the acquaintance of one Mr. Bently, a tin
pedler, who secured me the job of running a wagon for J. J.
Smith & Co., 108 South Delaware street, Indianapolis. The com-
pany was running twenty wagons. This was the first good job
for me, and paid $26.00 a month and expenses.
"On October 2 I started out with my tin wagon and ran it
until 1872. On June 9 of 1872 I went to Lafayette and ran a
wagon for Robert Manning & Co. until November 22 of the same
year. On this date I secured a position as brakeman on the Louis-
ville, New Albany and Chicago Railway, making my first trip to
Bloomington, Indiana. In 1874 I was promoted to train baggage-
master. In December, 1876, I was promoted to a freight con-
ductor. In 1879 I had an accident which caused me to lose my
position. I then started a restaurant in Michigan City and ran it
until I lost what little money I had. I then went back on the
Louisville, New Albany and Chicago road. Soon after, my wife's
health failing, I resigned and took care of her until her death.
In March of that year I secured a position as freight conductor
on the Wabash Railroad, between Moberly, Missouri, and St.
Louis. My mother and son Fred, aged six, were with me while
there. I left the Wabash January i, 1884, and returned to the
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Louisville, New Albany and Chicago as local freight conductor.
In March, 1886, I lost my position, owing to a change of officers.
From March to August I was in the produce business at Bloom-
ington, Indiana, having moved there from Lafayette. In July I
called on Mr. Bent at Cincinnati, who employed me as local
freight conductor, running between Seymour, Indiana, and
Cincinnati. I then moved from Bloomington to Seymour. In
1888 I was promoted to extra passenger conductor, and in Sep-
tember, 1889, to a regular passenger train between Louisville
and North Vernon. I then moved to New Albany. In 1897 I
began running between Louisville and Cincinnati, moving to
Home City, Ohio. At present I am running between Cincinnati
and St. Louis."
Charles M. Vawter was married September 23, 1875, to Carrie
J. Timmons, a daughter of Allan Timmons. She was born in
Hamburg. Germany. They had one son, Fred Allan.
Carrie Timmons Vawter died January 5, 1883.
Charles M. Vawter was married at Gosport, Indiana, August
II, 1884, to Alice Campbell, who was born July 29, 1859, in ^[t.
Tabor, Indiana. Children: Eva May, still-born, August 21, 1885,
and Maud, born June i, 1888, at Seymour, Indiana.
Charles M. Vawter's address is Home City, Ohio.
a. Frederick Allan Vawter, son of Charles M. and Carrie
(Timmons) Vaw^ter, was born February 16, 1878; married Feb-
ruary 16, 1898, to Stella Crichlow, who was born in 1881. They
have two children, Charles Desmond, born November 9, 1897,
and Jesse, born August, 1899.
Frederick Allan Vawter is manager of the Vawter Hay and
Grain Co., Indianapolis. Lives at 2709 Bellefontaine street.
(2) William Riley, son of Marion and Rebecca (Mahafy)
Vawter, was born September 9, 1855, and was married in August,
1879, to Emma Ketcham, in Glenwood, Missouri. There were
no children.
William Vawter was employed on the railroad as brakeman
and freight conductor, and was killed at Parsons, Kansas, March
18, 1 88 1. His widow, now Mrs. Emma Case, is living at Glen-
wood, Missouri.
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(3) Mary E., daughter of Marion and Rebecca (Mahafy)
Vawter, was born October 23, 1857, and was married to Richard
Dunning in Michigan City, Indiana, May 29, 1878.
Richard Dunning was born March 29, 1848, in Covington,
Ohio.
Children: Carrie, still-born, June 18, 1879, in Indianapolis.
Earl Raymond, born June 22, 1880, in Indianapolis.
Tilh'e Allan, born July 6, 1886, in Chicago.
Luella, born September i, 1896, in Chicago; died November
5. 1897-
Mr. and Mrs. Dunning and children live at 6342 Champlain
avenue, Chicago.
(4) Jesse, son of Marion and Rebecca (Mahafy) Vawter,
was born August 27, 1859, at Morgantown, Indiana. He was
married in June, 1886, to Ella Brown in Stinesville, Indiana. Ella
Brown was born September 12, 1862. Their children were
George, born January 14, 1887, and Grace, born February 18,
1889.
Jesse was freight conductor and was killed while running on
the Belt Line in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Jesse Vawter's widow married Albert Nail and lives at Mid-
land, Indiana.
Mary (Vawter) Obenshain
Mary Ann Vawter, the daughter of John and Ruth (Minton)
Vawter, was born March 6, 1836, in Vernon, Indiana. She moved
to Morgantown with her father at the age of about twelve or
thirteen years. Here she was married to George Obenshain Jan-
uary 28, 1 85 1. She united with the Missionary Baptist Church
of Morgantown February i, 1856; died April 24, 1897.
George Obenshain was born April 4, 1822, in Botetourt county,
Virginia. He was one of the leading grocery merchants of Mor-
gantown, Indiana, for many years. He has now sold out his
business and retired to private life.
The children of George and Mary (Vawter) Obenshain were
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Martha Jane, John W., Smith, Emma V., Carrie M., Frank A.
and Ruth M.
(i) Martha Jane, daughter of George and Mary (Vawter)
Obenshain, was born May 19, 1852, at Morgantovvn, Indiana, and
was married August 9, 1 871, to Joseph L. Fesler, who was born
April 23, 1850, in Morgantown. Mr. Fesler is a farmer living
near Morgantown. Their children :
a. Carrie A., born October 23, 1872, at Morgantown, In-
diana; married May 19, 1897, to Emerson M. Wood, who was
bom January 10, 1877, in Bedford, Kentucky. Mr. Wood is
editor and proprietor of the Morgantown Truth.
b. Timothy C, born March 28, 1875, in Morgantown; mar-
ried there on December 27, 1899, to Lulu Coleman, born May 21,
1882. Children: James Leon, born June 28, 1900, and Esther,
born January 10, 1902; died May 30, 1903. Timothy C. Fesler
is postmaster in Morgantown, Indiana.
c. Susie C. Fesler was born August 16, 1880, in Morgantown.
d. Jennie A. was born July 2, 1884, in Morgantown; died
April 22, 1 89 1.
(2) John W., son of George and Mary (Vawter) Obenshain,
died when a child.
(3) Smith, son of George and Mary Obenshain, died when a
child.
(4) Emma V., daughter of George and Mary (Vawter)
Obenshain, was born July 10, i860; married April 2, 1880, at
Morgantown to John W. Hilton, who was born March 27, i860,
at Morgantown, and died December 17, 1899, at Sullivan, In-
diana. One child, Fred E., was born November 9, 1883, at Mar-
tinsville. He lives at Paris, Illinois, with his mother. He is now
taking a course in electric engineering at Champaign, Illinois.
(5) Carrie M., daughter of George and Mary (Vawter)
Obenshain, died when a child.
(6) Frank Allan, son of George and Mary (Vawter) Oben-
shain, was born December 13, 1868, at Morgantown, and was
married November 4, 1895, at Louisville, Kentucky, to Berda M.
Ream, who was born August 31, 1874, at Nineveh, Indiana.
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Frank Obenshain is a carpenter by trade, but at present is rural
mail carrier. Lives at Morgantown, Indiana.
(7) Ruth M. Obenshain, daughter of George and Mary
(Vawter) Obenshain, was born August i8, 1873, at Morgan-
town; married July 6, 1902, to Spencer H. Wood, who was born
November 7, 1880, at Sligo, Kentucky. Their child, Harold H.,
was born July i, 1903.
Spencer H. Wood is a brother to Emerson Wood. He is a
printer by trade, but at present is collector for the Metropolitan
Insurance Company. Lives in Franklin, Indiana.
Allan Vawter
Allan Vawter, son of John and Ruth (Minton) Vawter, was
born May 9, 1833, at Vernon, Indiana. He was married Novem-
ber 20, 1853, at Morgantown, Indiana, to Catherine Hickey of
Morgantown, who was born at Elizabethtown, Carter county,
Tennessee, near Knoxville, October 10, 1837.
Allan Vawter was a merchant and a trader. He drove from
Indianapolis to Morgantown, Indiana, and bought poultry, eggs,
butter, tallow, etc., and gave in exchange merchandise. He was
well known all along the route, and was familiarly called "Al"
Vawter. He had a branch store at Smith's Valley, Indiana, and
a general store at Glenn's Valley, Indiana. He was of a genial
and social disposition and had a host of friends. Charles M.
Vawter and two brothers and one sister made their home with
him for some time. John Allan Vawter died May 30, 1874, at
Glenn's Valley, Indiana, and was buried at Morgantown.
Catherine Hickey Vawter, wife of Allan, was left a widow
with five children dependent upon her for support, the youngest
being but six months old at the time of the father's death. Mrs.
Vawter had charge of the general store and the postoffice at
Glenn's Valley, Indiana. She died at her father's home in Mor-
gantown, Indiana, May 28, 1895, from injuries received in a run-
away accident.
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The children of Allan and Catherine (Hickey) Vawter were
Frank Day, Ida Ruth, Elmer Mayo, Lillian Lincoln, Grace Min-
ton and Cora Allan.
(i) Frank Day Vawter, son of Allan and Catherine Hickey
Vawter, was born at Morgantown, Indiana. February 6, 1856;
married April 19, 1877, to Laura E. Smart, who was born Decem-
ber 3, i860.
Their children :
a. Clarence Allan, born March 28, 1878; married August
5, 1901, at Vincennes, Indiana, to Jennie Moore. His
wife died June 20, 1902, at the age of eighteen years.
b. John Elmer, born June 20, 1879.
c. Frances Bertram, born February 19, 1881.
d. Willie Belle, born November 8, 1882.
e. Ella Mae, born October i, 1884.
/. Horace Raymond, born March 15, 1886.
g. Nellie Bly, born January 2^, 1888.
h. Catherine, born December 8, 1890.
i. Alice Pearl, born November 27, 1892.
Frank Day Vawter died near Vincennes, Indiana, January 17,
1900. aged forty-four years. The family lives at Valley Mills,
Indiana, R. R. No. i.
(2) Ida Ruth Vawter, daughter of Allan and Catherine
(Hickey) Vawter, was born at Morgantown, Indiana, May i,
1858, and died at Glenn's Valley, August 25, 1897.
(3) Elmer Mayo Vawter, son of Allan and Catherine
(Hickey) Vawter, was born at Morgantown August 25, 1861;
married at Smith's Valley, Indiana, February 24, 1889, to Mar-
garet Alice Sawyer, born in 1869.
Children :
a. Ralph Emerson, born December 12, 1889.
b. Raymond, born July 15, 1891.
c. Mary Ruth, born December 5, 1892.
d. Frank, born April 8, 1895.
e. Dewey, born April 23, 1898.
/. Martha Clarice, born December 28, 1899.
g. Paul Leon, born March 6, 1903.
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Elmer Mayo Vawter lives near Mt. Pleasant cemetery in John-
son county, Indiana, and is sexton of same. His postoffice address
is Greenwood, Indiana, R. R. No. 17.
(4) Lillian Lincoln Vawter, daughter of Allan and Catherine
(Hickey) Vawter, was born at Indianapolis, Indiana, April 10,
1866; married at Indianapolis, July 24, 1899, to Thomas Lafay-
ett Smith. They have one son, Thomas Allan Smith, who was
born near Farmington, Kentucky, January 24, 1902.
Thomas Lafayette Smith is a farmer and stock raiser living
near Mayfield, Kentucky, R. F. D. No. i.
(5) Cora Allan Vawter, daughter of Allan and Catherine
(Hickey) Vawter, was born October 11, 1873, and was married
at Glenn's Valley, Indiana, November 18, 1891, to Whitfield
Yeager. They have no children. Live at 1204 Pleasant street,
Indianapolis, Indiana.
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WILLIAM VAWTER
William Vawter, the son of Jesse, was born April 2, 1783, in
the Holston country, near where North Carolina, East Tennessee
and Virginia now join. Because of the hardships to be endured
in the new country, and because he was a twin, the parents of
William Vawter left him in Virginia with his maternal grand-
parents when they were there on a visit. He was about two years
old at the time and he remained with his grandfather and grand-
mother Watts until seven years of age.
William Vawter himself, in writing of this period of his life,
says :
"In the fall of 1790 my father and mother moved to Kentucky
and there I was brought up. In the eighteenth year of my age I
was struck under conviction for my sins, and I labored very hard
in my own way to bring God under obligation to save me for my
works, but, instead of getting any nearer heaven, I seemed to get
farther ofif, and I continued so for months. At last I concluded
that there was no mercy for me, that I was a reprobate, and it
increased my trouble. I could not see any way that God could
save such a sinner as I was unless He changed, and I did not wish
Him to change to save me. His law said : The soul that sins, it
shall die.' I looked for death from day to day, so you see my
trouble was great.
"Late in November, 1800, I retired to condole over my lost
condition, for I had concluded that there was no mercy for me,
as I had tried every way I could think of to humble myself so
as to bring God under obligation to save me from a burning hell,
and He seemed to be angry with me all the time. I could not see
how He could save such a sinner as I was, and yet I wanted to
be saved if it could be done on the principles of justice. Then,
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all of a sudden, it came into my mind : The will of the Lord be
done,' and as soon as I gave myself up the trouble was all gone,
and all creation seemed to be praising God. I felt like I had been
asleep all my life before. This happiness did not last long. I had
not gotten what I was in search of. I could not get it. I know
there was a great change in my feelings about that time, but that
was not religion.
"In about a month after I went to the church to see if they
could tell me how to get religion, and to my great surprise they
received me as a fit subject for baptism. I could not receive my-
self, but I studied on it for a month and then yielded to the judg-
ment of the church and was baptized by old Father Hickman in
North Elkhorn. He was the pastor of the church called McCon-
nel's Run in Scott county, Kentucky. After this there was a
church constitution in father's house called North Fork. I re-
mained in that church for about five years until father lost his
land because of a defective title. We built us a frame meeting-
house.
"My father now made up his mind to locate in Indiana Terri-
tory, and I agreed to assist him in making a settlement. We
moved to Mount Glad, near Madison, Indiana, in 1806. In 1807
there was a Baptist Church constitution in father's house called
Crooked Creek, afterwards changed to Mount Pleasant. On the
first day of January, 1809, I married Frances Vawter, the daugh-
ter of Philemon (the brother of Jesse) and Anna Vawter, and in
1829 we moved to Jennings county and joined the Vernon
Church. In 1835 there was a new constitution called Zoar, where
my membership is at this time. I have been in three constitutions
and belonged to five Baptist churches. In the last named church
I was set apart by fasting, prayer and the imposition of hands to
administer the ordinances of the Gospel."
William Vawter was of a retiring nature. Although firm in
his notions of men and public policy, he never engaged actively
in politics and was no office seeker. In Jefferson county, on some
few occasions, he accepted office in the civil department, and
during the Indian troubles of 181 1 and 18 12 he was a captain of
the militia, but on the return of peace he resigned the office. From
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his ordination William Vawter devoted all the time he could spare
from domestic affairs and farm duties to preaching and the build-
ing up of the churches. He never received money as compensation
for his labors, and his house was ever open to the entertainment
of strangers, friends and brethren.
For six years before his death William Vawter lived with his
daughter. Frances V. King, and his wife, Frances, lived there
for one year longer. William died on Friday morning, July 17,
1868, aged eighty-five years, three months and fifteen days. The
funeral sermon was preached on the Saturday following his death
to a iarge congregation of friends and relatives by Elder Thomas
Hill from these words : "And I heard a voice from Heaven say-
ing unto me : Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord
from henceforth. Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from
their labors; and their works do follow them." (Rev. 14 : 13.)
Frances Vawter, wife of William, was born August 11, 1787,
and died October 26, 1869. They were both buried at the Vawter
cemetery, three and a half miles from North Vernon, Indiana.
Philemon and Anna, the father and mother of Frances, were also
buried there. Jesse and Elizabeth, the father and mother of Wil-
liam Vawter, were buried at Harbert's Creek, near Madison.
William Vawter left six sons and three daughters, one daugh-
ter, Maria Burns, having died many years before.
Frances V. King, the daughter of William Vawter, gave in
substance the following :
"When father first came to Indiana he tended his father's farm,
living in a log house on the hill. He first went to housekeeping
m the bottom near Madison, Indiana, afterwards owning a farm
at Mt. Pleasant. He had two places in Madison, and wished to
move there, but mother was opposed to living in town with her
boys, and so they continued to live at Mt. Pleasant until they
moved to Jennings county in 1829, where Uncle John and Uncle
Achilles Vawter had already gone. Father traded his farm at
Mt. Pleasant to a man by the name of George for land near
Vernon. Here our family lived for many years. The old house
IS still standing. It is situated on the bank of the Muscatatack,
about three and a half miles out from North Vernon. The house
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was a good one for the time. The following drawing, though
not exactly accurate in dimensions, perhaps, will yet serve to give
a general idea of the plan of the house:
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"Father afterwards entered two hundred or more acres near
the home place. He preached many years, receiving no compen-
sation therefor, but depending on the farm for the living. He was
much interested in education, and gave money to the founding
of Franklin College. Mother was a great reader. She liked to
read novels, and when she grew so deaf that she could not under-
stand the conversation of those around her, her reading was a
great comfort to her. She always took a number of papers."
Harrison Burns, a grandson of William and Frances Vawter,
Homestead of William Vawter
Near Vernon, Indiana
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lived at his grandfather's house for some time after the death of
his mother. In recalHng old times, he said :
"Grandmother had an old horse named Fanny which was kept
especially for her use. Grandfather's horse was named Farmer.
I used to be sent to town to mail a letter to the boys at college
or to get one. Uncle Achilles Vawter was postmaster at Vernon
then. It cost five cents to send a letter. There were no stamps.
The letter could be paid for in advance or paid for by the one
who received it. When a letter was sent to the boys, grandfather
always sent five cents along to pay for it. When he sent for a
letter from the boys, he also had to pay for that, as they were on
short allowance.
"As the children grew up and married, a number of them lo-
cated near the old place. These were Jesse Vawter, John T. Stott,
who married Elizabeth Vawter, George King, who married
Frances Vawter, and Ormand Feagler, who married Mary Vaw-
ter. Before his death grandfather gave forty acres of land or
equal value to each child, and at his death left $153 to each.
Probably not more than $100 in money was handled by any one
of those families at that time in the course of the year. They
raised all of their meat and vegetables and fruits and took butter
and eggs to town and traded for sugar, coffee and other groceries.
From the wool of the sheep the women spun the yarn and then
they wove the cloth and made all of the clothing except, perhaps,
a greatcoat for grandfather or a best dress for grandmother. It
was very seldom that a new article of furniture was bought.
"At first the cooking was all done by the fireplace, and later a
kitchen stove was bought. They all lived well. At George
King's there was always an abundant table and a hearty welcome.
George King had a buckwheat field and a sugar camp, and when
the time came for buckwheat cakes there were great heaps of them
baked on a griddle at the fireplace, and syrup there was in plenty.
At John Stott's they often entertained great numbers of guests.
The church was near their house, and the association met at that
church, and sometimes they would have as many as seventy-five
people to dinner. They would set the tables out in the yard.
"There was an old orchard extending from grandfather's
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house to the graveyard, and not far from the house were two
springs from which all the water for the house was carried. The
farms were located in reference to springs, and even towns were
sometimes so located. Probably when the Vawter brothers came
to Jennings county they did not push on still farther where they
could find yet better land because of the Indians. At that time
there were a great many of them. The militia was organized for
protection in every district. Grandfather was a captain of the
militia, and John Vawter was a colonel. Neither of them saw
any active service."
In an old memorandum book of William Vawter's the follow-
ing items were found :
May 7, 1849, we went to Vernon and got a tight-air stove and
paid $11.05 towards it.
June 13, paid $7 more.
August 29, paid $4 more.
October 17, paid $17 more.
December 15. paid $13 more.
February 7, 1850, squared the books at W. D. Vawter & Co.
and we are even. William Vawter.
(Cost of that stove was more than $52.05, as it is not known
how much the last payment amounted to.)
* * *
Anna Vawter, my wife's mother, went to Madison on Satur-
day, June 2, 1839, and in the evening went to Mr. Vale's and fell
into his cellar and got crippled so she was not able to help her-
self for more than six years. We made out to get her home, and
she lived until July 21, 1845, then died at her daughter's, Nancy
Lewis's. Nancy died April 2, 1855. Anna's son David died
seven days before his mother did.
William Vawter.
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Sarah, daughter of Maxa and Maria Burns, was sent here the
2 1 St day of October, 1846, and Ruth brought her. Maria Burns,
her mother, departed this life December 7, 1846, after a pro-
tracted illness of six months. She was brought here on the 9th
and buried on my burying ground. Uncle John Vawter preached
her funeral. William Vawter.
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In addition to what Maria received in her lifetime, and wliat
the children have had since her death, I have left the children one
hundred dollars, to be divided as set out in my will made March
the 24th, 1852. William Vawter.
* * *
Elizabeth and John Stott have received in sundries to aid them
to keep house one hundred and two dollars.
March 25, 1835, gave John and Elizabeth as above eight
dollars more.
November 22, 1847, gave John and Elizabeth Stott sixty dol-
lars in landed property.
February 8, 1851, gave John and Elizabeth Stott forty acres
of land at $200.00 (two hundred dollars). As an interest on the
same they are to pay twelve dollars per year as long as my wife
and I live and no longer.
April, 1858. I have stopped the interest.
William Vawter.
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John T. Vawter married Pamelia Dwyer May 10, 1835. They
set out for Iowa Territory September 3, 1839.
Received in a horse and saddle, $40.00.
April, 1835, gave $55.00.
August 18. 1835, gave $15.00.
William Vawter.
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Williamson D., by consent, left his parents three and a half
years before he was twenty-one and is charged with his time,
'forty dollars per year, $140.00. He married Mary Crowder
July 15, 1834. William Vawter.
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Jesse R. Vawter was married to Sarah Parks May 4, 1837.
Received in time and horse, $1 10.00.
Wife joined the church and was baptized December 24, 1838.
December 7, 1846, gave Jesse Vawter in land sixty dollars.
March 25, 1852, I set off to Jesse R. Vawter his portion of my
■estate out of the land I sold to him.
William Vawter.
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James received from me one hundred and ten dollars.
June 29, 1847, received sixty dollars.
William Vawter.
* * *
Frances v^as married to George King May 14, 1840.
Frances has received of her parents one bed, one bedstead, one
flax wheel, one saddle and twenty acres of land, $1 10.00.
Greorge and Frances King have received sixty dollars in the
way of land this November 22, 1847.
William Vawter.
* * *
Achilles united with the Baptist Church at Zoar, Jennings
county, the fourth Saturday in August, 1842, and was baptized
the following Lord's day.
September 23, 1844, Achilles entered Franklin College as a
student.
Achilles has received of me since that time $184.35.
Achilles, my son, constitutes one of the faculty in Franklin
College this October 30, 1848.
William Vawter.
* * *
Ida, the daughter of A. J. and M. E. Vawter, was born Feb-
ruary 3, 1856, and the mother departed this life on the 6th, and
on the 8th was buried by the side of her father. She died at La-
fayette, Indiana. Ida died , — .
William Vawter.
* * *
Philemon went to college October 6, 1847. He was married
to Rebecca Hunter November 25, 1858.
William Vawter.
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Polly L. was married to Ormond Frederick Feagler September
24, 1843, and commenced housekeeping November 29, and has,
in bed and other articles, to the amount of $85.00.
September 31, 1846, to one horse, $25.00.
October the 9th, 1848, I gave Ormond and Polly a cupboard
and a bureau, price $20.00.
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July 3, 1850. one cow and a note on M. Page, $13.00.
March 24, 1852, I deeded to Polly L., my daughter, forty acres
of land, which will be her full portion of my estate.
The above named deed is in my hands and in lieu thereof she
is to have two hundred dollars at my death or pleasure.
William Vawter.
* * *
Polly has received the amount as above.
William Vawter.
* * *
The following is a memorandum of the money received from
and paid out for the Vernon church by William Vawter :
In 1832 received $1.07. Paid for minutes and superintend-
ing the printing, 82 cents, and for wine 25 cents.
August meeting, 1833, received $2.28. September 16, paid
for printing association minutes, $1.00; April 19, 1834, paid for
one quart of wine, 75 cents; September 15, paid for the printing
of association minutes and the superintending of the minutes, 93
cents ; paid for wine 37^ cents. Received of Deacon Stott $1.25
handed to him by the Vernon Church at their August meeting in
1834. May 16 paid for wine 43^ cents. Total amount of money
received, $4.60. Total amount expended, $4.56/4- Balance due
the church, 3^ cents.
ZoAR Church, Jennings County, Indiana.
To all Whom it may Concern:
Know ye that we, the undersigned, being called by the afore-
said church, together with the sister churches, to examine into
the propriety of setting apart Brother William Vawter to the
administration of ordinances, unanimously agreed that he be set
apart by fasting and prayer and the laying on of hands and the
right hand of fellowship, to the administration of ordinances in
the House of God wherever God, in His providence, may cast
his lot.
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Done at Zoar Church at the business meeting on the fourth
Saturday in July, 1839.
John Bush,
William T. Stott,
Caleb Moncrief,
Attested by Elders.
John Stott, Clerk.
William Vawter made three wills. The first of these was
made March 16, 1835, and is as follows:
In the name of Almighty God, Amen.
I, William Vawter, the writer of the foregoing, being in my
proper mind and in good health and yet knowing not when I may
die, as all life is uncertain, wish that my children should have an
equal part in the distribution of my property. I think proper,
therefore, to set forth under each name the amount each one has
received and what remains to be divided as they become of age.
When all my debts are paid there will be on hand after my
death $300.00 (three hundred dollars) in cash and the remain-
der of lot No. 41 west, in first addition to Madison, Jefferson
county, Indiana ; also thirty acres of land in the south end of the
west half of the southeast quarter of section twenty-six of town
seven north, and range eight east, of the lands sold at Jefferson-
ville and lying on the south side of the north fork of the Mus-
catatack river; also ten acres adjoining and lying in the southeast
corner of the southwest quarter of section twenty-six of town
seven north, range eight east, of the land sold at Jeffersonville.
It is my will and desire that the remainder of my estate be for
the benefit of my widow for her comfort and support during her
lifetime and that of the children who are under age and remain
with her. After her death, and wdien the youngest child becomes
of age, I wish an equal distribution of what remains of my
property to be made among my ten children.
My estate left for the use of my widow and the children under
age consists of the following property, viz. : The tract of land I
now live on, consisting of two hundred and eighty acres of land,
with the farm, dwelling-house, outhouses, household and kitchen
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furniture, barn, grain, horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, farming tools
and all tools of every description indoors and outdoors, and all
my books, etc.
I do hereby ordain my wife, Frances, to be my sole executrix
of this my will and to transact all business as amply and as fully
as I myself, if living, could do, without bond or security.
In witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal in the
year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five,
March the sixteenth.
William Vawter. [Seal.]
(Will No. 2.)
In the name of Almighty God, Amen.
I, William Vawter, of Jennings county, Indiana, do hereby
make and ordain this my last will and testament. It is my will
and desire that my wife, Frances Vawter, enjoy and possess all
and every part of my estate, both personal and real, during her
natural life. The whole is hereby placed in her hands to manage
and control as fully and as perfectly in every respect as I myself,
if living, could do; and that without being under any obligation
to give bond or security for the faithful management of the same,
any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
It is my will and desire that should any of my estate remain
undisposed of and unused at the death of my wife that the same
be equally divided amongst all my legal heirs, so as to make each
and every heir equal, taking into consideration the advances al-
ready made to most or all of them, as will appear in my memor-
andum book. Should my son, John T. Vawter, and his children
remain as now with a combination or community of individuals
in the west, on the death of my wife, then and in that case I give
and bequeath his portion to the Franklin Baptist College in
Indiana.
Although I am now in my sixty-seventh year, sick and very
weak, yet my mind is as clear and perfect as usual.
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In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this
13th day of March, 1849.
In the presence of William Vawter. [Seal.]
John Vawter.
Rachel C. Crawford.
This will is null and void.
William Vawter.
LAST WILL OF WILLIAM VAWTER.
Be it remembered that on the 12th day of October, 1869, in
vacation of the Jennings Court of Commont Pleas, the last will
and testament of William Vawter was duly proven and admitted
to probate in the clerk's office of said court, which will and the
proof thereof is in the words and figures following, to wit :
"I, William Vawter, now in my sixty-ninth year since the
second of April last, and knowing, according to nature, that I
must soon go to the spirit world, and being desirous of disposing
of my estate which the Lord has blessed me with, make my last
will, revoking all others.
"ist. I recommend my spirit to God who gave it and my
body to be interred in mother earth in a manner corresponding
with my estate.
"2d. I direct that all my just debts be paid as soon as there is
money to pay them.
"3d. I bequeath to Maria Burns' children one hundred dol-
lars ; the four boys five dollars each ; the two oldest girls, fifteen
dollars each, and Sarah Jane fifty dollars.
"4th. I will and bequeath to my wife, Frances Vawter, all my
real and personal estate during her natural life, and further, I do
not design that the one hundred dollars bequeathed to Maria's
children shall be paid until after the death of my wife, unless she
is disposed to pay it or any part thereof.
"5th. I have given to Elizabeth Stott, Jesse R. Vawter and
Polly Feagler their shares heretofore. After the death of my
wife I bequeath and will all my real and personal estate after
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA ^7
the payment of the above legacies unto John T. Vawter, William-
son D. Vawter, James Vawter, Achilles Vawter, Frances King
and Philemon Vawter, to be equally divided.
"6th. I appoint Williamson and James Vawter my executors.
"In testimony whereof, I have set my hand and seal this 24th
day of March, A. D., 1852. William Vawter.
"Signed, sealed and acknowledged in the presence of those who
have signed their names as witnesses and by the testator's request
and in his presence. James H. Vawter.
"Achilles Vawter.
"H. T. Vawter.
"By request of the testator I certify that this is still his will this
June 25, 1859. W. T. Stott, Jr."
CODICIL TO MY LAST WILL.
This is the closing up of my earthly matters, that is to say, at
the death of myself and wife.
I give to my oldest sons, John T. and Williamson D., four
hundred dollars in government bonds, two hundred to each. The
one hundred dollars set apart in my will for Maria Burns' chil-
dren, I wish carried out.
The remainder of my estate, after the death of myself and wife
and the payment of all debts, is to be equally divided between my
three youngest sons, James, Achilles and Philemon, and my
daughter, Frances Ann King.
This can be done without going to the expense of proving and
recording my will. William Vawter.
April 27, 1868.
State of Indiana,
Jennings County, ss :
Court of Common Pleas, FebruaryTerm, 1871.
Matters of the Estate of Elder William Vawter, deceased.
The undersigned, executor of said estate of William Vawter,
bL
88 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
deceased, begs leave to report to the court aforesaid, the follow-
ing final settlement of account with said estate :
I am chargeable with the following assets of the said estate :
July 17, 1868. To bonds $500.00
November 16, 1868. Cash of James Hill on judgment
against Chronister and Eckstein 537-^5
July 17, 1868. Personal effects of said estate 95 -OO
January 8, 1869. Interest on bonds 20.00
April 8, 1869. Interest of Cook, Stott & Co 7.25
June 21, 1869. Cash on judgment 200.00
June 26, 1869. Cash on judgment 100.00
July 3, 1869. Interest on bond 20.25
January 5, 1870. Interest on bond 17-25
January 15, 1870. Cash on judgment 150.00
May 26, 1870. Premium on bonds 39-00
June 25, 1870. Cash on judgment 1 14.10
Total $1,800.70
I claim credit for the following, as per vouchers filed herewith :
By attorney fees for collections, Voucher i $26.85
Account of Cook, Stott & Co., Voucher 2 21.90
Funeral expenses, Voucher 3 30.00
Physician's services. Voucher 4 24.00
Board and attendance, Voucher 5 188.00
Board and attendance for wife, Voucher 6 98.00
Taxes, Voucher 7 13-87
Account Cook, Stott & Co., Voucher 8 7.18
Account W. D. Vawter & Co., Voucher 9 5.62
Account Frances A. King, Voucher 10 130-25
Funeral expenses of Frances Vawter, Voucher 11 25.00
Physician's services, Voucher 12 14.00
Legacy to Sarah Burns, Voucher 13 50.00
Legacy to Lizzie A. Bailey, Voucher 14 i5-00
Legacy to Mary Burns, Voucher 15 i5-00
Legacy to James Burns, Voucher 16 5.00
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Legacies to David, Harrison and William Burns,
Voucher 17 $15.00
Internal revenue tax. Voucher 18 11.26
Distributive share to P. C .Vawter, Voucher 19 I53-I5
Distributive share to A. J. Vawter, Voucher 20 1 53-15
Distributive share to James Vawter, Voucher 21 I53-I5
Distributive share to John T. Vawter, Voucher 22. . . . 153.15
Distributive share to Frances A. King, Voucher 23. . . 153.15
Distributive share to W. D. Vawter, Voucher 24 153-15
Attorney's fees for collections. Voucher 25 28.00
Monuments for dead. Voucher 26 125.00
Taxes, Voucher 27 10.98
Clerk's fees, Voucher 28 6.25
Expense of stamps and of distribution, making re-
ports, etc 15-64
Total $1,800.70
All of which contains a full statement of all of the estate of the
decedent for which I am chargeable with the credits to which I
am entitled.
Williamson D. Vawter, Executor.
Frances Vawter, the wife of William, was a daughter of Phile-
mon Vawter, who was the brother of William's father, Jesse.
For an account of Philemon and Anne see page 256.
Children of William and Frances Vawter were Maria, Eliza-
beth, John Taylor, Williamson D., Jesse, James, Frances Ann,
Achilles, Mary L. and Philemon.
II.
WILLIAM VAWTER5
(Jesse*, David^, John^, John^)
(1783-1868)
m.
FRANCES VAWTER
(1787-1870)
Children®
Grandchildren''
G. Grandchil-
G. G. Grandchil
dren*
DRHN»
' (i) Jesse V.,d. s.
Anna Gertrude
(2) James m. -^
Joseph Lee
Nancy Smith
Charles F.
' William Conduit
(3) William V. m.
Charles W., d.
Sarah Black
Maggie Myrtle m.
Marsh R.Whitson
No children
(4) Harrison m.
ist Constance
Smydth
Margaret, d.
1 Lee
2d Julia
Tomlinson
Byron Elliot, d.
3d Mrs. Georgia
' Ida m.
Minnick
Oswald Patzold
(5) Livingston S.,
Grace, d.
d. s.
Danforth, d.
Nellie, d.
(6) David V. m.
Edith
Eudora Dan- -
Edna m.
forth
. Wm.McElvaine
«
Maria Vawter m.
Maxa Burns
(7) Mary F. m.
Dallas New- -
land
' George Ballard
James Edwin m.
Elsie Cox
Jesse Guy, d.
Robert Nelson
' Ralph Guy
' Cora Alice
^ Jennie May m.
Jesse L.Rossman
Elvie Elizabeth
Arnold Jay
Eva Grace
Nellie Viola
Henry Ward m <
Gladys
Clara Summers '
Gerald
(8) Elizabeth m.
Henry Bayley
•
Arthur Loring m.
Melinda Larason
Frank Wade
Bertha Alice
Edith de Fluria
Minnie Agnes
Howard Glenn
t. Willard Marion
(9) Sarah J. m. ,
Geo. B.
^ Loomis 1
Grace B.
George D., d.
i^
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91
2. Elizabeth Vaw-
ter m.
John Stott
(i) Vawter, d. s.
(2) Martha E. m.
Maxa Moncrief
(3)
William T. m.
Arabella R.
Tracy
(4) Mary F.
(5) Jennie M. m.
James N.
Chaille
Jennie, d. s.
Caleb, d. s.
Emma m.
Robert D. Trick
Wilfred T.
Grace E. m.
Clark R. Parker
^ Edith R. m.
Fred G. Kenny
Cyril H.,d.
[ Roscoe G.
I Bertha Eliza-
j beth.d.
No children
Cyril Rodney
(1) Edward m.
I St
Barbara Kro-
her
I
George Adam m.
I Kate A. Luty
f Frank Wesley m.
2"^ I Emma Graupne
Catherine GunH William m.
f Edgar Frederick
I Frank Edward
Wilbur Luty
Bertha May
Clifford George
Freda Mildred
EdnalCatherine
-1
(2)
nerman
William m.
Matilda F.
McKinnon
3. John T. Vawter
m.
ist
Pamelia Dwver
(3)
(4) Katherine m.
Geo. Vanosdol
L
Mary V. Straugh-
ter
Emil
Frances m.
Jno. G. Burck-
hardt
f Colonel m.
Ida Rahe
Williams.
L Pamelia, d.
' Sarah Ann m. [^
Henry W. Boeck- -j Enid Beth
ley [
John Frederick, m.
Minnie Baker
Lulu Christman,d.
Margaret Pamelia
Mary Elizabeth
George
Mamie
Mary Catherine m.
Joseph Brooks
Emeline m.
Geo. W. Baltzer
James Monroe m.
Mollie Pence
Frances Ann m.
Albert C. Staggs
Scott m.
Elizabeth Gibbs
Sarah Hotchkiss
m.
W. R. Perrigo
Mattie Belle m.
W. W. Wilcox
Wm. Weaver
Cora Lee
Lulu Ludica
L Isaac Morton
Artemus
Gerald
[ Aurora
Pearl
Harry
Floyd
Bertha Winifred
Wm. Gilbert
Laurence
92
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John Taylor Vaw-
ter
( Continued)
(5) Mary, d. s
(6) Michael m.
Rebecca
(7) Louisa m.
Thomas
Tanksley
(8) JohnT. m.
Ida Spring-
steen
f Charles Vawter
Samuel, d.
Minnie, d.
Albert m.
ChristenaWesaw
Thomas Oliver
James Mitton
Henry Franklin
Charles William m.
Daisy Tolle
m. 2d Mrs. N. S.
Philliper
(9) Albert C. m.
Frances
Churchwell
Vernon Day
Arthur Lee
Annie Gladys
I Mary Ruth
Williamson D.
Vawter m. ist.
Mary T. Crow-
der
(I)
Mary Ellen, m.
Ward Leavitt
(2) May, m
S. S. Harwood
(3) Jane Cravens
(4) Aramantha, m.
Septimius
Vater
is) Williams, m.
Sarah McClas-
key
(6) Edwin J. m. ist
Laura Dixon
2d Mrs.Isabelle
Nelson
Charles Dunn,d.
Florence Mary
No children
f Williamson Dunn
m. Grace Barker
Thos. Eugene d.
t Agnes Eugenie
Mary Charlotte m.
John R. Moore
Edwin J., Jr. m.
Bessie Channel
Marjorie Dixon
m. 2d
Charlotte A.
Knowlton
(7) Emma Knowl-
ton
(8) Charles
Knowlton d.
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93
5. Jesse R. Vaw-
ter m.
Sarah Parks
(i) Margaret 6. m.
Lewis Wagner
(2) Elizabeths, ra.
Thos. Clarkson
' Jesse R., d.
Ethel m.
Martin A. Shep-
herd
Albert V.
Clara Belle m.
William Pool
Emma Alice m.
Willard Whit-
comb.
Elvin Grant
Thos. Osborn
Jesse F.
Edith Idella m.
. Bertha May m.
Amelia Frances m.
H. L. Holton
I Ralph
(3)
Wm. Allan m.
Angelina E.
Cheever
(4) Smith W. m.
Lucinda John-
son
Clara Adaline m.
Bowen C. Heath
' Sarah Rebecca
Cora Luvinia m.
Wm. Henry
Brown
James Oscar
Wilbert Carl }
Alt , T r t^
Albert Jesse \
L Otis Estis
Margaret J. m.
Wm.F. Philliber
Annie J.
Lelia May
Clyde E.
Adda
Meta
Elizabeth
William A.
Sarah A.
Ray
James H.
Ruth
Fern
Bowen C.
Wilbur Fee
(5) John S. m.
Elizabeth Grin- i
stead
Everett E. m.
Mahala Sanders
Clyde Elmer, d. s.
Maud Ellen m.
Wm. F. Moody
Pearl E.,d.s.
Nona Elma
Benjamin Irvin m. ( „ „
ut A- I iir J a } Emery B.
Hattie J. Woodruff <
r otto, d.
Orvill L.
Oral Floyd
Ira Grace, d.
Clara B.,d.
Perry H.,d.
Raymond L.
Mary E.
Ira E., d.
John I.
Alma B.
Homer W., d.
IraM.,d.
Velma E.
Mabel, d,
L Silvia V.
iJl
94
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Jesse R. Vawter
(Continued)
Olive May m.
J. W. Snell, d.
Fanny Bell, d. s.
LewEmmerson m.
Dana Norris
Esther
" Frank
Myrtle
Ella Grace m.
Olive
A.J.Taylor
Charles
Mabel
(6) Sarah Frances
Deny
m.Thos. F.
. Harold
Grinstead
Claud Ellsworth,
d. s.
Bertha Edith
Ada Jane ra.
T. F. VanHorn
Ora Idella m.
C. H. Hockmuth
Jesse Edward
Myrtle Blanche,
d. s.
Carl James, d, s.
Vila Gail
Emma Ethel
' Edward J., d. s.
Alvaretta m.
Arthur E.
John A. Shinold
Matilda A.
Indiana R.m.
1 Vance
Moses M. Miller
' Irvin
(7) James G. m.
Margaret Ross '
Mary Jane m.
Irvin R. Crum
Omer Walton
Lucy A.
Lewis Clyde
Grace G.
Sarah Frances, d.
1 Flora M.
' Jamie A.
.Ruth
^
(8) Elvira Ann m.
'Lila, d.
Charles H.
Augusta
Carey
^ Vivian
' Bertha A. m.
[ Ezra William
Joseph W. Gray
Ernest T.,d. s.
(9) JessePhilemon
Clarence M.
m. Minerva A. -
Benjamin F.
Ross
Jesse Pearl m.
Minerva May
Corydon Laswell
Millie Myree
Velmal.
. Flossie Myrtle
' Nellie M.m.
( Opal
(lo) AramanthaM. .
Otho G. Wright
Robert W.
m. lames West
Sarah Ethel
. Charles William
I
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
95
r
6. lames Vawter
m. Minerva L.
Bromley
(i) Sherman m.
Emma May,d.
Edward W., d.
Minerva E., d.
Everett F.
Nellie
Henry J.
7. Frances Vawter
m.
George King
(i) Almira m.
Wm. Holsclaw
Ezra m.
Mattie Deer
Eva Jennie m.
Edwin Carson
Fannie A. m.
Smith V. Wil-
liams
William E. m.
Zella Wagner
Sarah Grace m.
Oscar Beeman
Mary Belle, d
Jacob Harrison m.
l^ Bertha Alice
Jessie
Alma
Smith
Blanche Vernon
Hazel Lavone
Ethel Grace
Lizzie, d.
L Edwinnie
*" Almira Corinne
Lois Mildred
Virgil Elvin
Helene
fRuth
4 Hubert
l^ Gladys
5 Wilbur Elvin
) Clyde
(2) Ezra, d. s.
(3) William V. m.
Caroline Van- ] No children
dever
(4) George Elvin
m. MinnieTate
L (5) Alzora, d. s.
8. Achilles Vawter /
™- ist ) (i) Ida Maria, d. s.
Maria Dunham '
Lulu Ellis
Edna Hazel
' (2) William Arthur f Cora Catherine
m. Alice R. ] William Arthur
Hadley [^ George Hadley
2d
Mrs. Elizabeth
A. Baker
3rd
Charlotte S.
Hobart
(3) Frank M. m.
Clara Miller
(4) Grace m.
Ernest P.
Bicknell
r Harry Miller
-{ Jessie Mae
(^ Helen Miller
Ernestine, d.
Charlotte, d.
Grace Constance
[ Alberta
i
96
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
9. Mary L. Vaw-
ter rn. Ormand
Feagler.
C (i) Marie Cor-
delia, d.
(2) James William
m. Mary King
(3)
(4)
(5)
Bessie
Philemon Ed-
win, d.
Vawterjohnm.
Helen Gardner
(6) Charles Alfred
(7)
(8) RoenaKate,
d. s.
Emma May m.
McArthur
Smartz.
Fannie Fern, d.
Rose Bonnell
-{ Grace Cordelia, m.
Robert King
(^ Charles Alfred
Fred Willard, d.
Florence Edith, d.
Merlin Duncan, d.
Marie
Everett Marion
Wilhelmina Har-
riet, d.
Mary Elizabeth
Margaret Fay
Katie Frances
Robert George
Bessie Ruth
' Mildred Rose
Robert Feagler
Russel Aubrey
Helen Grace
(10) Philemon
Vawter ra.
Sylvia Hunter
r (I)
(2)
Everett Bates
m. Helen E.
Read
William Hun-
ter
Wallace Read
Maria (Vawter) Burns
Maria Vawter, daughter of William and Frances Vawter, was
born in Jefferson county, near Madison, Indiana, December
16, 1809. She lived there on the farm until December 16, 1826,
when she was married to Maxa M. Burns. They lived in Vernon
for a year or two, then her mother-in-law died and they went to
Wirt to keep house for her father-in-law's family. Maria ( Vaw-
ter) Burns was a devoted Christian, a member of the Baptist
church from early womanhood, and was respected and loved by
both relatives and friends. She died December 7, 1846, at the age
of thirty-seven years.
Maxa Moncrief Burns was the son of James Burns, one of the
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 9/
early settlers of Jefferson county, and was the brother of Miles
and Taulman Burns. He was born April 27, 1808; died March
17. 1890. James Burns, the father of Maxa, was born in Louden
county, Virginia, September 28, 1786; died December 29, 1875.
(More of the Burns family will be found in the chapter on "Cus-
toms.")
David Burns, one of the children of Maxa and Maria Burns,
gives his remembrance of the breaking up of the family after the
death of his mother, as follows :
"My mother died at Wirt. Indiana, where we then lived.
Sallie, together with Harry, had been living at grandfather's for
about two months. My mother's remains were taken to the old
farm for burial. It was my first ride so far as I have any recol-
lection. I think we must have left Mary and Lizzie out there at
the time, as I do not remember their being at the old home after
the funeral. Mary went to live with Aunt Frank, and Lizzie with
Aunt Lizzie. My father, James, Will, and myself returned home.
We kept house until sometime during the next summer. Will
did the housework; James worked in the sawmill which my fa-
ther owned, running the engine, young as he was. The next
summer we visited at grandfather's again and Aunt Polly asked
for me and I was left with her. My father afterwards sold the
mill at Wirt and bought another one at Dupont. Will then made
his home with Dr. Butler of Dupont, looking after his horses, do-
ing chores and attending school. After about two years my
father married and we were all taken home to Dupont, except
Sallie, who remained with grandfather and grandmother until
nearly the time of their death. My brother James did not live
with us at Dupont. I think he must have remained with the old
sawmill at Wirt, which was then owned by an uncle of ours.
James stuck to sawmills all his life, and never seemed happy when
away from one. In 1855 we moved to Sharps ville."
Of the move to Sharpsville. Harrison Burns, another son, said :
"Some friends from Dupont had gone to Sharpsville to live,
and my father and I concluded to go and see the country. We
rode to Martinsville, walked to Mooresville, then to Plainfield
and on to Indianapolis, which had then, in the year 1854, about
98 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
twelve thousand inhabitants. We went on from there to Sharps-
ville and then returned to Dupont. When we moved to Sharps-
ville in the spring of 1855 I rode through on horseback. There
wasn't a sign of a road within fifteen miles of Sharpsville. I
sometimes went in the woods, which were very swampy, and
sometimes on the railroad. All that spring two horses couldn't
haul the wagons through the streets because of the mud. Nearly
every one in the town had chills and fever. There were two doc-
tors. Both were sick and lay in bed and dosed out quinine to
those who were able to come for it."
The children of Maxa and Maria (Vawter) Burns were Jesse
v., James, William V., Harrison, Livingston S., David V., Mary
F., Elizabeth and Sarah J.
(i) Jesse v., son of Maxa and Maria (Vawter) Burns, was
born June 9, 1830; died March 12, 1831.
(2) James, son of Maxa and Maria (Vawter) Burns, was
born November 15, 1831 ; married October 18, 1859, to Nancy
Smith, who was born August 17, 1843.
James Burns was an engineer. He always seemed infatuated
with sawmills, and roved around the country from one sawmill
to another. He died near Little Rock, Arkansas in March, 1903-
The children of James and Nancy (Smith) Burns:
a. Anna Gertrude, born August 18, 1864.
b. Joseph Lee, born July 21, 1870.
c. Charles F., born March 7, 1883.
Mrs. James Burns and family live at Greenwood, Indiana.
(3) William V. Burns, son of Maxa and Maria (Vawter)
Burns, was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, December 19,
1833 ; married at Mooresville, Indiana, March 28, 1854, to Sarah
W. Black; died August 11, 1885.
William V. Burns was said to have possessed a most remark-
able memory. He could recite the whole New Testament through
and could repeat the contents of a law book from beginning to
end. His profession was that of a lawyer. He went into the army
in 1862, serving in the Seventy-Ninth Indiana Regiment as judge
advocate, and when mustered out he held the rank of captain.
Sarah (Black) Burns, the daughter of W. M. and Frances
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 99
Black, was born November 13, 1836. Lives at 340 West Henry-
street, West Indianapolis, Indiana.
The children of Wilham V. and Sarah (Black) Burns were
William Conduit, Charles W. and Maggie Myrtle.
a. William Conduit Burns was born March 23, 1855 ; married
to Mary M. Coleman March 21, 1878. Lives in Indianapolis,
Indiana. No children.
b. Charles W. Burns was born January 6, 1857; died in 1858.
c. Maggie Myrtle Burns was born August 29, 1859; married
to Marsh R. Whitson December 18, 1883. No children. Lives
at 908 Elizabeth street. Ft. Worth, Texas.
(4) Harrison Burns, son of Maxa and Maria ( Vawter) Burns,
was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, December 11, 1836; mar-
ried March 22, 1870, to Mary Constance Smydth, the daughter
of William C. and Constance Smydth, who was born July 18,
1847 i^ Bloomfield, Indiana, and died September 24, 1882.
Children of Harrison and Mary (Smydth) Burns were Mar-
garet Burns, who was born and died March 14, 1871, and Lee
Burns, who was born April 19, 1872, in Bloomfield, Indiana.
Harrison Burns was married, second, to Julia E. Tomlinson.
One child, Byron Elliot, died in infancy.
Harrison Burns was married, third, to Mrs. Georgia S. Min-
nick, July 3, 1891.
Harrison Burns went to live at his grandfather's near North
Vernon, Indiana, shortly before the death of his mother, and
remained there until his father married again. He then went
home to Dupont, Indiana in 1849. He and his father built four
houses in Dupont in the year 1853, and then went down by boat
into Louisiana, where they built a house for a planter, which took
them five or six months, as the lumber was all prepared by hand.
In 1855 his father moved to Sharps ville, and soon after that Har-
rison Burns went to Martinsville as a carpenter. The next year
he was a cabin-boy on a river boat running from Cincinnati to
New Orleans. In 1857 he went into his brother William's law
office in Martinsville. He practiced law in Bloomfield, Indiana,
for fourteen years. He was elected judge of the Common Pleas
Court of Indiana, Ninth District, for two terms, beginning his
lOO THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
first term of office in 1868. In 1876 he was appointed by Gov.
Hendricks as judge of the Marion Superior Court. He is the au-
thor of a number of law books, of which Burns' Indiana Digest
and Burns' Indiana Statutes are the most widely known. Lives
in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Lee Burns, the son of Harrison Burns, attended the Indianapo-
lis High School and did some special work at Butler University.
He has been associated with the Bobbs-Merrill Company of In-
dianapolis in various capacities since 1885. During the earlier
years of his employment he attended school a portion of his time.
He was a member of Company D, One Hundred and Fifty-
Eighth Regiment of Indiana Infantry during the Spanish-Amer-
ican War. Is now employed in the publication department of the
Bobbs-Merrill Company.
(5) Livingston S. Burns, son of Maxa and Maria (Vawter)
Burns, was born June 30, 1839; died March 3, 1843.
(6) David Vawter Burns, son of Maxa and Maria (Vawter)
Burns, was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, June 18, 1841 ;
married November 29, 1869, to Eudora Danforth (the daughter
of Albert Joseph and Matilda Haven Sewell Danforth) , who was
born March 16, 1849, in Newtown, Indiana.
David Burns received his early education in the common
schools. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted as a private
in the Twenty-Sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteers. He served
during the war, being twice wounded and at one time a captive.
After the close of the war he entered the Indiana State Univer-
sity. In 1866 he began the study of law and was graduated two
years later from the Indianapolis Law School, and practiced his
profession in Indianapolis. In 1870 he was elected district at-
torney, and in 1878 was elected judge of the Superior Court of
Marion county, Indiana. In 1887, on account of failing health,
he went to Denver, Colorado, to live. In the fall of 1891 he was
elected judge of the district court, and remained on the bench
until 1894. He received the degree of LL. D. from Franklin Col-
lege in 1897, and the appointment of referee of bankruptcy in
1902. He is a member of the Baptist Church, and has given
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA lOI
largely both of effort and money for its support. Lives at 2247
Marion street, Denver, Colorado.
The children of David V, and Eudora (Danforth) Burns:
a. Ida Burns, born in Indianapolis October 25, 1870; married
June 2y, 1893, to Oswald Alfred Patzold, who was born August
2, 1870, in Covington, Kentucky. Mr. Patzold is now superin-
tendent of the Glenrock Coal Company and lives in Glenrock,
Wyoming.
b. Grace Burns was born January 8, 1872 ; died July 25, 1872.
c. Danforth Burns was born August 19, 1873 ; died September
6, 1878.
d. Nellie Burns was born February 28, 1875; died June 28,
1875-
e. Edith Burns was born July 8, 1877, in Indianapolis. Is
living with her parents in Denver, Colorado.
/. Edna Burns was born August 29, 1881, in Indianapolis;
married to William McElvaine Sites, September 17, 1903, in
Denver, Colorado. William Sites was born in Columbus, Ohio,
November 16, 1877. Lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and is
superintendent of the gas department of the Oklahoma Gas and
Electric Company.
(7) Mary F. Burns, daughter of Maxa M. and Maria (Vaw-
ter) Burns, was born at Wirt, Indiana, April 2, 1843; married
April 27, 1872, to Dallas Newland, who was born January 13,
1844.
Mary F. Burns was about three years of age when her mother
died. She went to her grandfather Vawter's for a while and then
stayed with her Aunt Frances King for some time. When her
father was married again she went with him to Dupont, Indiana.
She was living in Indianapolis at the time of her marriage to
Dallas Newland.
Dallas Newland's parents lived in Cumberland, Indiana. He
was a teacher of music in the Institution for the Blind at In-
dianapolis at the time of his marriage. He died November 21,
1889.
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• Children of Dallas and Mary F. Newland :
a. George Ballard, born January 26, 1873; disappeared while
working in Chicago.
b. James Edwin, born May 10, 1875 ; married May 28, 1897,
to Elsie Cox, who was born November 21, 1878. Their children
are Robert Nelson, born January 14, 1898, and Ralph Guy, born
January 13, 1902.
c. Jesse Guy, born March 29, 1880; died January 19, 1902.
Mrs. Newland and son Edwin and family live in Indianapolis,
Indiana.
(8) Elizabeth A., daughter of Maxa M. and'Maria (Vawter)
Burns, was born in Wirt, Indiana, September 27, 1844; married
March 22, 1868, to Henry L. Bayley, who was born July 21,
1828;, died January 22, 1896.
Elizabeth (Burns) Bayley lived at Wirt, Indiana, until the
death of her mother, then lived with her aunt, Lizzie Stott, until
her father married again. She was married at Sharpsville to Mr.
Bayley. They moved from Sharpsville to Metamora, Michigan,
and from there to Battle Creek. Mrs. Bayley and her children
are all living in Battle Creek, Michigan, except the oldest son,
Henry W. Bayley, who lives in Metamora.
Children of Henry L. and Elizabeth (Burns) Bayley:
a. Jennie May Bayley, born November 13, 1868, in Sharps-
ville, Indiana; married August 30, 1885, to Jesse L. Rossman.
Children: Cora Alice, born May 8, 1888; Elvie Elizabeth, born
September 10, 1889; Arnold Jay, born December 15, 1891 ; Eva
Grace, born May 6, 1894; Nellie Viola, born June 29, 1902.
b. Henry Ward Bayley, born April 30, 1870, in Kokomo,
Indiana; married February 28, 1895, to Clara Summers. Chil-
dren: Gladys, born March 27, 1897, and Gerald, born August
17, 1898.
c. Arthur Loring Bayley, born June 21, 1872, in Sharpsville,
Indiana; married August 28, 1900, to Melinda G. Lamson.
d. Frank Wade Bayley, born November 16, 1874, in Sharps-
ville, Indiana.
e. Bertha Alice Bayley, born September 26, 1876; died July
3I' 1877.
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103
/. Edith de Fltiria Bay ley, born December 6, 1879, in Sharps-
ville, Indiana.
g. Minnie Agnes Bayley, born September 26, 1882, in Sharps-
ville, Indiana.
]i. Howard Glenn Bayley, born June 11, 1885, in Metamora,
Michigan.
/. Willard Marion Bayley, born July 25, 1887, in Metamora,
Michigan.
(9) Sarah Jane Burns, daughter of Maxa and Maria (Vaw-
ter) Burns, was born in Wirt, Indiana, June 19, 1846. She was
taken to her grandfather and grandmother Vawter when but four
months old, her mother being very ill at the time, and dying two
months later. She lived with her grandparents until eighteen
years of age. When thirteen years old she had brain fever. When
fourteen years of age she had rheumatism, not being able to
walk a step for six months, and then using crutches for three
years. She then had cerebro-spinal meningitis, which resulted in
total loss of sight, but in almost a cure of the rheumatism. She
entered the Institution for the Blind, taking up her studies where
she left off, and graduating from there in three years, teaching
reading, arithmetic and geography for one year in one of the
grades. After all this time she still held to a cheerful confidence
that she would see again. It was some time after the paralysis
of the eyelids was overcome and the eyeballs (which were turned
backward) had been turned into their natural position by a skill-
ful doctor before she began to see, but gradually the sight was
restored.
About 1 87 1 Sallie Burns was employed as governess and
teacher in an orphanage on Capital avenue, Indianapolis. She
was there for five years and while there took charge of a boy,
Frank B. George, and supported and educated him. He attended
the public schools and then Franklin College for one year. Is now
married and lives in Detroit. In 1876 Sallie Burns became matron
of the Colored Orphans' Home, served there five years, and was
then appointed church missionary for the First Baptist Church
of Indianapolis. She was engaged in this work for two years and
was then married, on December 31, 1883, to George B. Loomis,
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Mr. Loomis, by a former marriage, had two children, Fred and
Mary. Fred was afterwards married to Louise Wegmann and
lives in IndianapoHs. Mary was married to Henry Rogers and
and died, leaving two children. Mr. Loomis died November 27,
1887. Five years after his death Sallie (Burns) Loomis again
took up church missionary work and has been engaged in some
sort of regular church work ever since. She and her daughter
Grace live in Indianapolis, Indiana.
George B. Loomis, the son of George and Esther Brace
Loomis, was born in Bennington, New York, May 10, 1833. He
early showed musical ability and was sent to New York City to
be instructed by Lowell Mason. He taught music in Providence,
Rhode Island, then came to Worcester, Ohio, and in 1864 was
appointed superintendent of music in the public schools of In-
dianapolis, which position he held for seventeen years. During
this time he published a series of music books which were used
in the Indianapolis schools for years and are still in use in many
cities of the United States. Mr. Loomis was a deacon in the First
Baptist Church of Indianapolis.
Children of George and Sallie B. Loomis : Grace B., born
March 25, 1885, in Indianapolis, and George D., born August 8,
1886; died July 17, 1887.
Grace B. Loomis is now attending Franklin College.
Elizabeth (Vawter) Stott ' .
Elizabeth Vawter, daughter of William and Frances Vawter,
was born September 17, 181 1, in Jefferson county, Indiana, near
Madison, and while she was yet a young girl united with the
Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church. Her father moved to Jennings
county, Indiana, when she was about sixteen years of age. She
was married to John Stott about four years later. She was of a
quiet, unassuming nature, but yet decided in her opinions. One
of her children, in talking of her, said : "When mother spoke we
always knew she meant what she said and we did what she re-
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quired. Father was a preacher, and in those days preachers re-
ceived no remuneration for their services, but gave time and
effort freely, making their living on their farms or in other busi-
ness. The time given to traveling about preaching v^as just so
much time taken away from the work by which the family lived ;
so the wives of preachers had more to contend with than other
women. My mother was often worried in the early years of
father's preaching because of the time spent away from the farm,
but later grew reconciled and became the most patient person I
ever saw. Every one was attracted by her sweet, lovable disposi-
tion. Her Christian influence on her own family was most
marked. She and father labore'd and prayed for the conversion
of their children, and lived to see them all, except Vawter, who
died in infancy, members of the Zoar Baptist Church. Mother
was confined to her bed for a year before her death. She died in
Franklin, Johnson county, Indiana, November 17, 1893, ^S^^
eighty-two years."
John Stott was born March 14, 181 1, in Woodford county,
Kentucky. His parents moved to Jennings county, Indiana, in
181 6. He worked on a farm until he was seventeen or eighteen
years old, when he went to Vernon to learn the tanner's trade
with his uncle. He was married to Elizabeth Vawter April 7,
1 83 1, and they went to housekeeping in Vernon. In a short time
they moved out on a farm near William Vawter's, the father of
Elizabeth. Here John Stott divided his time between farming
and tanning. He began preaching about 1848. Most of his time
was given to local churches, and he did great good in strengthen-
ing weak churches. He united with the Vernon Church in 1828.
John Stott and his wife lived on the same farm for fifty years.
They celebrated their golden wedding there in 1881. Four years
afterward they moved to the Hopewell neighborhood near Frank-
lin, Indiana, in order to be near their son. Here John Stott died
December 29, 1887, aged seventy-seven years.
Children of John and Elizabeth (Vawter) Stott were Vawter,
Martha E., William T., Mary F. and Maria Jane,
( I ) Vawter Stott, son of John and Elizabeth (Vawter) Stott,
was born May 7, 1832; died March 12, 1835.
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(2) Martha E. Stott, daughter of John and EHzabeth (Vaw-
ter) Stott, was born April 18, 1834, on the old farm near Vernon,
Indiana. She united with the Zoar Baptist Church in 1850, and
was baptized by the Rev. James B. Swincher. She lived at home
until nineteen years of age, when she was married, November 3,
1853, to Maxa Moncrief, near Vernon, Indiana.
Maxa Moncrief was born July 11, 1832, in Jennings county,
Indiana. His occupation was farming. He united with the Con-
cord Baptist Church in 1850. Has lived in Franklin, Indiana,
since 1879.
Children of Maxa and Martha (Stott) Moncrief:
a. Jennie Moncrief, born April 19, 1855 ; died March i, 1870.
b. Caleb Moncrief, born April 2, 1858; died October 17, 1859.
c. Emma Moncrief was born July 31, i860, near Vernon, In-
diana. She united with the North Vernon Baptist Church in
1874; was married July 24, 1895, to Robert D. Trick, who was
born November 28, i860, in South Wales. Emma Moncrief
Trick died in Franklin, Indiana, March 31, 1902.
(3) William T. Stott, son of John and Elizabeth (Vawter)
Stott, was born near Vernon, Indiana, May 22, 1836. He went
to the district schools, and in 1854 attended an academy in De-
catur county, Indiana. He united with the Zoar Baptist Church
in his seventeenth year ; began attending Franklin College in the
winter of 1856-57, and was graduated in 186 1. In July, 1861,
he enlisted in the Eighteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry and was
in the service until the close of 1864. Was for two years a private
and for the remainder of the time captain of Company "I." He
was in fifteen battles, being commander of the regiment in the
last battle, which was at Cedar Creek, Virginia. In September,
1865, William T. Stott began a course of study in the Rochester
Theological Seminary, New York, and graduated there in May,
1868. He was married to Arabella R. Tracy May 21, 1868; was
pastor in Columbus, Indiana, 1868 to 1869; in 1869 was called
to the acting presidency of Franklin College ; was acting president
a year and a half and professor of sciences for about a year and
a half. He was elected president of the college in 1872, and has
been president for thirty-two years. W. T. Stott has been hon-
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ored with several offices, such as president of the Indiana Baptist
Convention, member of the board of visitors for the Home for
Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans, member of the state board of
education, member of the board of the Indiana Soldiers' Home,
and has been associate editor of the Baptist Outlook for some
time. In 1894 he visited Europe and Palestine. Lives in Franklin,
Indiana.
Arabella (Tracy) Stott, the daughter of Isaac Storrs Tracy
and Mary (Pierce) Tracy, was born in Tunbridge, Vermont,
February 12, 1843. Her father moved to Rochester, New York,
when she was a child, and she was educated there.
Children of William T. and Arabella (Tracy) Stott: Wilfred
T., Grace E., Edith R., Cyril H. and Roscoe G.
a. Wilfred T. Stott, son of William T, and Arabella (Tracy)
Stott, was born in Columbus, Indiana, March 5, 1869, and grad-
uated at Franklin College in 1891. He was employed as a re-
porter by the Indianapolis papers for some time, then owned a
paper in Columbus, Indiana. While there, he raised a volunteer
company of which he was the captain. This company was in
Governor Durbin's regiment in the Spanish War. Wilfred T.
Stott was for a number of years on the staff of the Chicago
Tribune. He is now assistant editor of Service, a Baptist Union
magazine published in Chicago.
h. Grace E. Stott, daughter of William T. and Arabella
(Tracy) Stott, was born November 29, 1871, in Franklin, In-
diana. She graduated at Franklin College in 1894. She was col-
lege librarian until 1899. Was married June 15, 1899, to Rev.
Clark R. Parker.
Clark R. Parker was born November 29, 1873, in East Trum-
bull, Ohio. He graduated at Franklin College in the class of
1898 and then went to the Boston Conservatory for instruction
in music. He taught music in Franklin College one year, then
taught school in the Muncie high school for two years, then re-
turned to Franklin as principal of the high school. In October,
1904, he became pastor of the La Porte Baptist Church.
Clark R. and Grace (Stott) Parker have one child, Cyril Rod-
ney, who was born in Muncie, Indiana, Alay 4, 1901.
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c. Edith R. Stott, daughter of WilHam T. and Arabella
(Tracy) Stott, was born in Franklin, Indiana, January i, 1875.
She attended Franklin College. She was married to Rev. Fred
Glendower Kenny, October 29, 1903.
Fred Glendower Kenny was born in 1868 at Le Roy, New
York. Is pastor of the Tipton, Indiana, Baptist Church.
d. Cyril H. Stott, son of William T. and Arabella (Tracy)
Stott, was born November 8, 1877; died October 23, 1884.
c. Roscoe G. Stott, son of William T. and Arabella (Tracy)
Stott, was born in Franklin, Indiana, October 29, 1880. He grad-
uated at Franklin College in 1904, and is now in the University
of Chicago.
(4) Mary F. Stott, daughter of John and Elizabeth ( Vawter)
Stott, was born in Jennings county, Indiana, May 17, 1840. She,
like her mother, is of a retiring nature. She was much afflicted
as a child, so seldom left home. When she was fifteen years of
age her mother fell from a horse breaking her wrist and bruising
herself. After that the care of the house fell on Mary. Jennie
and Mary were both teachers in the Sunday-school for years while
they lived in the old home. They united with the church in 1854,
and were baptized by their father in the creek down by their
grandfather's place. Mary came to Franklin in September, 1885,
and is living there now with her sister, Mrs. Moncrief.
(5) Jennie M. Stott was born in Jennings county, Indiana,
March 9, 1842. She was always of a cheerful disposition and a
good student. She began teaching when seventeen years old and
taught for several years. She was in college one year, but owing
to sickness at home was compelled to return there. Afterwards
she taught a private school in Franklin, Indiana. She was married
to James N. Chaille June 23, 1881. In August, 1882, a daughter.
Bertha Elizabeth, was born, who lived for four years. Her hus-
band died in fifteen weeks after the death of the little girl. Jennie
S. Chaille then came back home to Franklin, where she remained
until her death, June 7, 1894.
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John Taylor Vawter
John Taylor Vawter, son of William and Frances Vawter, was
born in Jefferson county, Indiana, August 20, 181 3, and was mar-
ried to Pamelia Dwyer May 10, 1835. He and his wife and child,
Edward, went to Iowa in the general land rush in 1839, when
the government opened the land of that territory to the public.
The land was then in the hands of rangers — men who pastured
their stock upon the lands but who did not own them. These
rangers naturally objected to the incoming settlers, and even after
these settlers had entered their claims and were living upon them
the rangers tried to drive them away by persecution. John T.
Vawter was arrested once for arson and four times for perjury
upon statements sworn to by the rangers. Although he proved
himself innocent every time he spent all he had in defending
himself.
About this time there came to Iowa a German preacher, who
preached in both the German and English languages and who in-
terested Mr. Vawter more than any one he had ever heard. The
minister was one of a German community in Ohio. Later, John
T. Vawter went sixty miles to hear another one of these preach-
ers. This second minister told him of a German colony which
was being organized in Shelby county, Missouri, and said that
Mr. Vawter could become a member if he so desired. Mr. Vawter
was very much pleased with the idea and went with his family
to Missouri and united with the colony. At that time he had four
children. These children learned to speak German long before
their father did, and he said they would often come to him and
ask questions that he could not make out. Their first education
was entirely in German. There were only two American families
in the colony. Mr. Vawter lived in the colony for about eighteen
years, and says he remembers it as one of the happiest periods of
his life.
When the colony was first organized at Bethel, Missouri, the
members lived in tents, and there were many more in the town
m
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then, in 1845, than there are at the present time. Each family
Hved in its own house as soon as the houses could be built. Such
improvements were made about the place as were deemed neces-
sary by the elders and Mr. Kyle, who was the head. One of the
directors came around each morning and said : "You go here,
you work there, you plant, you plow," and so on. The women
did the lighter kinds of work in the field, the girls and women
also working in the glove factory and the woolen mill. The men
worked on the farms, in the tannery, the distillery and at herding.
There was a superintendent for each department — the farm, the
factory, and so on. These superintendents were under the direc-
tion of the elders. The people were allowed provisions and cloth-
ing according to the number in the family, and the supply was
abundant. Whisky was furnished also, but there was no drunken-
ness in the colony. No money was allowed to the members.
At first the colony was very poor, but it grew prosperous as
the years passed, and the people lived better and had more time
for amusements. At Elim, a short distance from Bethel, was the
residence of Mr. Kyle, the leader. At this place was a great pa-
vilion and concert hall. Here the people had two great festivals
a year — the May Festival and the Harvest Festival. At both of
these they had an abundance of good things to eat and music and
dancing. At Hebrun, one mile northv/est of Bethel, was the
colony cemetery.
Mr. Kyle, who was a minister and also the head of the colony,
was a very remarkable man. He possessed a powerful person-
ality and a wonderful control over the people. He ruled the
colony in a manner which seemed to be for the best good of all.
The people no more thought of questioning his authority than
they would that of their Creator. Even the young people had to
ask his consent when they thought of getting married.
John T. Vawter, while a member of the colony, at first lived
in the town. He was a herder, and after a while moved out in
the country, as it became necessary for him to attend to his herd-
ing at a greater distance from the town. He took up a claim of
one hundred and sixty acres, and the colony improved it. The
first house they built for him was by the side of the creek. While
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in this house the family constantly had the chills and fever. The
colony then built a house for them on the hill, and after living
there a while the chills left them. Mr. Vawter's father and mother
visited him while in the colony.
Before the colony was disbanded a number of the members
went to Oregon, among them Edward Vawter, the son of John
T. Vawter. Mr Kyle, the head of the colony, afterwards went
to Oregon to bury his son who had died there, and as the members
were not doing well he remained to take charge of the Oregon
branch. He retained control of the Missouri branch, but appoint-
ed Andrew Giese as manager. Andrew Giese was in turn fol-
lowed by Jacob Miller. Under these changes in leadership the
colonists became dissatisfied.
About this time John T. Vawter went for a visit to his relatives
in Indiana, and when he returned to Missouri decided to sever
his connection with the colony. Although he had nothing when
he went into the colony, when he left it he had his farm, which
he had pre-empted, his house and barn and the stock upon the
farm, and had in the meantime brought up a large family ; so that
his experience had not been a bad thing for him financially. On
this farm were born his other three children by his first wife.
Here his first wife died December i6, 1861. Here he was mar-
ried, second, to Mrs. N. S. Philliper, July 12, 1866, and here his
youngest child, Albert, was born. Soon after Mr. Vawter with-
drew the colony was disbanded.
John T. Vawter and his wife are now living in Bethel, Mis-
souri. He is ninety-two years old.
Children of John T. and Pamelia (Dwyer) Vawter were Ed-
ward, William, Frances, Katherine, Michael, Louisa and John
T., Jr.
(i) Edward Vawter, son of John T. and Pamelia (Dwyer)
Vawter, was born in Jennings county, Indiana, November 21,
1838; married in Portland, Oregon, February 12, 1865, to
Barbara Kroher, who was born September 30, 1838, in Bavaria,
Germany, and died July 3, 1866.
Edward Vawter's first education was in German in the colony.
Both his children and grandchildren speak the German language
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as well as the English. In 1863 he, with a number of others from
the colony, went to Oregon. He drove an ox-team across the
plains, landing at Portland, Oregon, October 6, 1863, and was
engaged in cutting cord-wood, making rails, etc., until he married
the first time, when he went to farming, and has followed that
occupation since.
Edward Vawter was married the second time to Catherine
Gunnerman, December 7, 1871. She was born in Hesse-Cassel,
Germany, February 8, 1842. They are now living in Bates City,
Missouri.
Children of Edward and Barbara (Kroher) Vawter:
a. George Adam Vawter was born in Aurora, Marion county,
Oregon, June 10, 1866; married in Bethel, Shelby county, Mis-
souri, September 30, 1888, to Katy A. Luty, who was born in
Bethel, Missouri, May 18, 1864. Children:
Edgar Frederick Vawter, born in Bethel, Missouri, March 10,
1890.
Frank Edward Vawter, born January 7, 1892; died February
18, 1892.
Wilbur Luty Vawter, born May 19, 1893.
Bertha May Vawter, still-born, January 9, 1896.
Clifford George Vawter, born January 6, 1900.
George A. Vawter went from Bethel, Missouri, to Newport,
Washington, in 1901. He is in the real estate business and is also
a dealer in wood.
Children of Edward and Catherine (Gunnerman) Vawter:
a. Frank Wesley Vawter was born June 13, 1873; married
April 2y, 1898, to Emma Graupner, who was born December 7,
1876. Children: Freda Mildred, born July 27, 1899, and Edna
Catherine, born September 18, 1901.
Frank W. Vawter is living in Newport, Washington.
b. William Alfred Vawter, son of Edward and Catherine
(Gunnerman) Vawter, was born February 13, 1876; married
June 12, 1 90 1, to Mary Virginia Straughter, who was born De-
cember 5, 1875. No children. They live in San Dimas, Cali-
fornia.
(2) William Vawter, son of John Taylor and Pamelia (Dwy-
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er) Vawter, was born near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 20,
1840. He enlisted from Shelby county, Missouri, in April, 1863,
to serve three years or during- the war. He was mustered into the
United States service at St. Louis, Missouri, as a private of Cap-
tain James M. Collier's Company "G," Eleventh Regiment Cav-
alry, Missouri Volunteers, Colonel William D. Wood command-
ing. This regiment took part in the action at Spring Town,
from where it marched to Jacksonport and participated in that
fight, April 26, 1864. In May the regiment was ordered to Du-
vall's Bluflf, Arkansas, and during its stay there took part in the
engagements at Ashley's and Jones' Stations, Augusta, Searcy,
Dardanelle and Morristown, and marched over ten thousand miles
in expeditions, raids and scouts. In November, 1864, the regi-
ment was ordered to Brownsville, Arkansas, and attached to the
Second Brigade, Cavalry Division, Seventh Army Corps; in Feb-
ruary, 1865, was ordered to Little Rock, Arkansas, remaining
there until May; thence to New Orleans, en route for the Rio
Grande. On arriving at New Orleans in July the order was coun-
termanded and the regiment ordered to Benton Barracks, Mis-
souri. It was mustered out of service July 27, 1865, at Greenville,
Louisiana, thence moved to Benton Barracks, St. Louis, Missouri,
and received final pay and discharge August 11, 1865.
William Vawter, in the spring of 1865, was confined in the
hospital at Little Rock, Arkansas, owing to illness, and when he
returned to St. Louis found that his company had been disbanded.
He received an honorable discharge at St. Louis on the nth of
August, 1865, by reason of the close of war. He was married
April 5, 1866, at Shelbyville, Missouri, to Matilda F. McKinnon
Christman, who was born November 14, 1843, ^^ St. Louis
county, Missouri. She was married first to William Christman,
who was one of the Union soldiers massacred by the Quantrell
band of outlaws in the battle of Centralia, Missouri.
William Vawter's eyes were injured during the war and he
was mustered out almost blind. Several years after the war he
engaged in the mercantile business in Ivanhoe, Missouri ; sold
out his business there in 1885, and with his family moved to
Meade county, Kansas, where he took a homestead of one hun-
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dred and sixty acres of land, but the hot winds and grasshoppers
in the summer and the bhzzards in the winter soon drove the
family away. They moved to Polk county, Missouri, where Wil-
liam bought a farm. Selling this farm, he moved to Bullion,
Adair county, Missouri. Shortly after this, in 1893, his eyes
began to grow worse, and in a short time he became blind and
has been so ever since. He lives with his son William in Brashear,
Missouri.
Children :
a. Colonel Vawter, son of William and Matilda Vawter,
was born January 26, 1867. He was married June 7, 1896, to
Ida Rahe at Bullion, Adair county, Missouri, and has one son,
Emil, who was born October 14, 1898. Colonel Vawter is a black-
smith and wagon-maker, living at Brashear, Missouri.
h. William Scott Vawter, son of William and Matilda Vaw-
ter, was born March 28, 1873, in Shelby county, Missouri. He
came to Brashear, Missouri, in 1893, ^'■^'^^ ^s an attorney of that
place and a member of board of trustees of the town. He was
elected for four consecutive times Worshipful Master of the Ma-
sonic Lodge. He is an Odd Fellow, and has held the highest of-
fices in that lodge. He recently received his commission as district
deputy grand master of the Odd Fellows for District No. 59.
William S. Vaw-ter takes an active interest in politics. He is,
moreover, a great student of ancient history, and it is said that
there are few men in Missouri so well informed as he on that
subject.
c. Pamelia, daughter of William and Matilda Vawter, died
in infancy.
Matilda Vawter, wife of William, died April 16, 1899.
(3) Frances Vav/ter, daughter of John T. and Pamelia
(Dwyer) Vawter, was born January 3, 1843, in Iowa, near Cedar
Rapids, and was two years of age when her father united with
the German colony in Missouri. She lived in Bethel, Missouri,
for ten years when her father moved his family out on a farm
near there. She was sixteen years old when her mother died, and
she then took charge of the house until her father married again ;
then went to Shelby ville, Missouri, and lived with a family by
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the name of Carley until she was married. Was married Decem-
ber 18, 1870, to John George Burckhardt.
John G. Burckhardt was born in Wiirttemberg, Germany, Sep-
tember 24, 1842. When twelve years of age he came to this
country with his parents and settled in Glen Cove, Rhode Island.
In May, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company G, Fourth
New York Volunteer Infantry; was discharged May, 1863, as
sergeant; shipped November, 1864, in the United States navy;
discharged October, 1865, from the United States ship Anemone
at the New York navy yard. After that he lived with his parents
at Allentown, Pennsylvania, and worked in a rolling mill. In
1869 he came to Shelby ville, Missouri, and there was married
to Frances Vawter. Mr. Burckhardt has a large farm near Bethel,
Missouri. He makes a specialty of raising fine stock, particularly
thoroughbred shorthorn cattle and draft horses and sheep. He
is an Odd Fellow, a member of the Grand Army of the Repubhc,
a school director, a deacon in the Presbyterian Churchy and is one
of the prominent farmers who has been chosen by the government
to send in regular monthly reports of the weather conditions and
the crops. Ivanhoe Stock Farm, Bethel, Missouri.
Children of John G. and Frances (Vawter) Burckhardt:
a. Sarah Ann Burckhardt, born February 28, 1873; married
October 17, 1896, to Henry W. Boeckley. They live near Bethel,
Missouri, and have one child, Enid Beth, who was born May 12,
1902.
b. John Frederick Burckhardt was born February 14, 1875 ;
married April 19, 1903, to Minnie Baker, who was born October
3, 1880, in Ohio. They live near Bethel, Missouri.
c. Lulu Christina Burckhardt was born June i, 1876; died
February i, 1898.
d. Margaret Pamelia Burckhardt, born May 27, 1878.
e. Mary Elizabeth Burckhardt was born September 27, 1879.
/. George Burckhardt was born January 12, 1882.
g. Mamie Burckhardt was born May 4, 1884.
(4) Katherine Vawter, daughter of John Taylor and Pamelia
(Dwyer) Vawter, was born near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, February i,
1845 y moved with her parents when still an infant to the German
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colony at Bethel, Missouri, remaining in the town until ten years
of age. Her father then moved out on a farm near Bethel. Here
she lived, with the exception of three years spent in the town,
until she was married, March, 29, 1866, to George Vanosdol.
George Vanosdol was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, Oc-
tober 13, 1840. In 1856 he moved to Shelby county. Missouri,
assisting his father there in farming. He served in the army, re-
turning to Shelby county, Missouri, in 1865. He has been en-
gaged in farming for the most of his life. Is now living near
Plevna, Missouri.
Children of George and Katherine Vanosdol :
a. Mary Catherine, born October 13, 1866; married April 9,
1 89 1, to Joseph Brooks, who is a lumber manufacturer living at
Bonner's Ferry, Idaho. Children : Artemus, born December 30,
1893; Gerald, born August 25, 1894, and Aurora, born Septem-
ber 2, 1896.
h. Emiline Vanosdol was born August i, 1868; married
March 7, 1889, to George W. Baltzer, who is a farmer and trader
living at Epworth, Missouri. Children: Pearl, born January 17,
1890, and Harry, born October 26, 1891.
c. James Monroe Vanosdol was born March 9, 1870; mar-
ried October 20, 1894, to Mollie Pence. James M. Vanosdol is a
farmer and trader living near Epworth, Missouri. No children.
d. Frances Ann Vanosdol was born February 28, 1872; mar-
ried February i, 1893, to Albert Campbell Staggs; died April
16, 1893.
e. Scott Vanosdol was born February 10, 1874; married April
23, 1892, to Elizabeth Gibbs. He is a farmer and trader living
near Epworth, Missouri. No children.
/. Sarah Hotchkiss Vanosdol was born May 4, 1876; mar-
ried July 19, 1897, to W. R. Perrigo. They live in Naples,
Idaho. They have two children, Floyd and Bertha Winifred.
g. Mattie Belle Vanosdol was born November 23, 1878; mar-
ried November 3, 1895, to W. W. Wilcox, who is a farmer and
trader living near Shelbyville, Missouri. Children : William Gil-
bert, born November 26, 1896, and Laurence, born October 30,
1900.
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h. William Weaver Vanosdol was born December ii, 1880.
Lives in Rush Center, Kansas.
/. Cora Lee Vanosdol was born April 11, 1883.
j. Lulu Ludica Vanosdol was born July 9, 1886.
k. Isaac Morton Vanosdol was born February 7, 1889.
(5) Mary Vawter, daughter of John Taylor and Pamelia
(Dwyer) Vawter, was born October 9, 1847 ; died April 21, 1858.
(6) Michael Vawter, son of John Taylor and Pamelia
(Dwyer) Vawter, was born April 6, 1851 ; married Rebecca
in Lexington, Missouri. No children.
(7) Louisa Vawter, daughter of John Taylor and Pamelia
(Dwyer) Vawter, was born November 17, 1853, in Shelby county,
Missouri; married in Knox county, Missouri, June 15, 1874, to
Thomas Tanksley, who was born in Hancock county, Illinois,
March i, 1855. They live at Fern Hill, Washington. Chil-
dren of Thomas and Louisa (Vawter) Tanksley:
a. Charles Wesley Tanksley, born September 11, 1875, in
Shelby county, Missouri.
h. Samuel Tanksley, born in Schuyler county, Illinois, June
18, 1877; died September 11, 1878.
c. Minnie Tanksley, born in Illinois January 22, 1879; died
March 22, 1884.
d. Albert Tanksley, born in Illinois March 11, 1881 ; mar-
ried August 23, 1900, to Christena S. Wesaw, of Lake View,
Washington.
c. Thomas Oliver Tanksley, born in Illinois April 19, 1883.
/. James Mitton Tanksley, born in Lafayette county, Mis-
souri, September 21, 1888.
g. Henry Franklin Tanksley, born in Lafayette county, Mis-
souri, August 25, 1891.
(8) John T. Vawter, Jr., son of John Taylor and Pamelia
(Dwyer) Vawter, was born near Bethel, Missouri, December 11,
1855, married at Kirby, Missouri, December 12, 1875, to Ida
E. Springsteen, who was born August 22, 1858, in New York
City.
Children : Charles William Vawter, who was born near Kir-
by, Missouri, February 2, 1877; married December 7, 1900, to
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Daisy Tolle, who was born near Bethel, Missouri, in 1877.
Charles William Vawter died November 27, 1891.
John T. Vawter, Jr., has worked at teaming and farming for
the most of his life. Lives now in Bethel. Missouri.
(9) Albert C. Vawter. son of John T. Vawter and his second
wife, was born near Bethel, Missouri. July 7. 1869; married,
near Shelbyville, Missouri, July 26, 1891. to Frances Josephine
Churchwell, who was born near Emden, Missouri. July 27, 1870.
Children :
a. Francis Marion, born April 2, 1893.
h. Vernon Day, born August 4, 1894.
c. Arthur Lee, born September 20, 1895.
d. Annie Gladys, born May 9, 1897.
e. Mary Ruth, born July 14, 1900.
Albert C. Vawter is a lumber grader living at Newport, Wash-
ington.
Williamson Dunn Vawter
Williamson Dunn Vawter, son of William and Frances Vaw-
ter, was born August 28, 181 5, at Mt. Glad, near Madison,
Indiana. His father moved to Jennings county, Indiana, when
he was about twelve years of age. He attended the country
schools, his first text books being a spelling book and the
New Testament, then the American First Class Book. Among his
teachers was Mrs. Lard, a noted teacher in the early days of
Indiana. Williamson's father proposed to make a farmer of his
son, but the boy had no liking for that vocation and left his
father's home soon after reaching the age of twelve years. He
went to Kentucky to a cousin by the name of Stapp, with whom
he stayed for a time. Afterwards he went to live with his uncle,
Colonel John Vawter, for whom he had a great affection. John
Vawter wanted to make a business man of Williamson. The
first work of the boy was driving an ox-team between Vernon and
Madison, carrying merchandise for his uncle's store, which was
located in Vernon and was the great emporium for a vast region
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119
of country. This work, which was full of adventure and danger,
the roads being bad and the woods affording lurking places for
occasional savages, just suited the daring spirit of the boy. Later
he became a clerk in the mercantile house of his uncle, and then a
partner in the same store with his cousin, Smith Vawter. Wil-
liamson and Smith Vawter carried on business together in the
same brick building at the old Vawter corner in Vernon for
forty years. Williamson Vawter was the junior partner. He
was also postmaster of Vernon for a number of years, a leader
in temperance work and treasurer and custodian of the Bible
depository of the Jennings county branch of the American Bible
Society from its organization until he moved to California. He
did not despise the day of small things, but was ever ready to
assist in any measure for the good of the community. He took
a lively interest in municipal politics ; was a whig during the life
of that party and a member of the republican party from its
birth ; was an abolitionist in principle ; voted for General William
Henry Harrison for president of the United States and also voted
for Benjamin Harrison in 1888.
Williamson D. Vawter and family went from Vernon, Indiana,
to Los Angeles county, California, in 1875, W. D. Vawter being
one of the original members of the "Indiana Colony." This
colony bought land where Pasadena now stands. The climate
of Santa Monica, however, seemed to offer superior attractions,
and there Williamson Vawter and sons bought property and en-
gaged in business, partaking actively in every measure for the
good of the town. W. D. Vawter was one of the founders of the
first church organized and built in Santa Monica — the Presby-
terian Church. The first street railway in Santa Monica was
built, owned and operated by Williamson Vawter and his two
sons, W. S. and E. J. Vawter. The First National Bank of
Santa Monica was organized by himself and sons, and the
largest brick block there was built by same. W. D. Vawter was
president of the bank at one time, and at the time of his death was
still engaged in that business.
Williamson D. Vawter was married July 15, 1834. to Mary
Charlotte Tilghman Crowder, who was born May 12, 181 7, and
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died September 22, 1851, and was buried in the Vernon cemetery.
The children of WilHamson D. and Mary Charlotte Tilghman
(Crowder) Vawter were Mary Ellen, May, Jane Cravens, Ara-
mantha Charlotte, William Smith and Edwin James.
Williamson D. Vawter was married, second, November 10,
1852, to Charlotte Augusta Knowlton, who was born in Shrews-
bury, Massachusetts, July 31, 1819, and died in Santa Monica,
California, December 27, 1893. Children of Williamson and
Charlotte (Knowlton) Vawter were Emma Knowlton and
Charles Knowlton.
Williamson D. Vawter died in Santa Monica, California, July
10, 1894.
Children :
( 1 ) Mary Ellen Vawter, daughter of Williamson D. and
Mary (Crowder) Vawter, was born in Vernon, Indiana, October
23, 1836. At the age of eighteen she began teaching, but after
teaching two years at May Hill and Deer Creek her eyesight
failed and she was compelled to remain a year in a dark room.
When twenty-three years of age she was married to Ward
Leavitt, of Chautauqua, New York. Children : Charles Dunn,
born February 16, 1862; died October 2, 1862; Florence May,
born August 3, 1865.
In the spring of 1875 M^- ^^^ Mrs. Leavitt and daughter went
to Los Angeles county, California, with the family of E. J. Vaw-
ter. They were stockholders in the Indiana Colony. After a
few months' sojourn at Pasadena and Los Angeles, they came to
Santa Monica. In 1880 they went back to Pasadena, and after
seven years of orange ranch life there they returned to Santa
Monica, where Mr. Leavitt died, October 23, 1896.
(2) May Vawter, daughter of Williamson and Mary (Crow-
der) Vawter, was born in Vernon, Jennings county, Indiana, March
4, 1838. She was educated in the Vernon schools. She stood
well in her classes and had a fair musical education ; taught school
in Lafayette, Indiana, with her uncle, A. J. Vawter, who was at
that time superintendent of the Lafayette schools ; traveled
through the southern and eastern states and Canada and came
to the Pacific coast with her father's family in 1875. She was
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married in the spring of 1876 by Rev. Dr. Condit, to Switzer
Soutter Harwood, M. D., at her father's home in Santa Monica,
California. Mr. and Mrs. Harwood lived in San Pablo, Cali-
fornia, then in San Francisco, going afterwards to Yreka, Sis-
kiyou county, the extreme northern portion of California. They
then went to Sydney, Australia, to live. May V. Harwood making
the voyage to and from there several times. She died in Sydney,
Australia, March i, 1884. May (Vawter) Harwood was self-
reliant, active, daring and adventurous from her childhood. She
united with the Vernon Presbyterian Church and was one of the
charter members of the First Presbyterian Church of Santa
Monica, California.
Dr. Switzer Soutter Harwood was born in London, England.
He went with his parents to Sydney, Australia, where he re-
mained for a short time, returning to England to complete his
education. He came to San Francisco in 1875, and in that same
year to southern California. In Santa Monica he met and mar-
ried May Vawter. There were no children.
(3) Jane Cravens Vawter, daughter of Williamson D. and
Mary (Crowder) Vawter, was born in Vernon, Indiana, April
17, 1840. The name Cravens was given in honor of a political
friend of her father. She was interested in political and national
questions from childhood and became a stanch abolitionist at ten
years of age. She received her education, for the most part, in
the private and public schools of Vernon, and afterwards contin-
ued her studies under the direction of the family physician. Dr.
J. C. Burt, following the course of study laid out in the catalogue
of Hanover College. She then took special courses of reading for
several years. At twenty years of age she taught for several
months in the public schools of Indianapolis, and again at twenty-
two. She was a teacher of the higher English and algebra, besides
other branches. She united with the Vernon Presbyterian Church
April 17, 1864; was the projector and one of the founders of the
first Sunday-school in Santa Monica, California. The school was
organized and carried on for some weeks in the W. D. Vawter
homestead. Jennie Vawter was a charter member of the First
Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica ; served for a time as Sun-
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day-school superintendent, and later took charge of a class of
boys and girls, thirty in number, taking them from ten years of
age until they were men and women. She was one of two solicit-
ors who collected funds for the erection of the beautiful building
of the Presbyterian Church now in use in Santa Monica, Cali-
fornia, a building made possible by the generosity and sympathy
of her father and mother, with their family. She and her sister
Emma live together in the old homestead in Santa Monica.
(4) Aramantha Charlotte Vawter, daughter of Williamson
D. and Mary (Crowder) Vawter, was born in Vernon, Indiana,
September 25, 1841. She was educated in the Jennings Academy
in Vernon and in the Female College at Oxford, Ohio. She com-
menced to teach school when not quite seventeen years old in
Scipio, Indiana, afterward taking a school in the country at a
place called the "Forks of Graham." After this she resumed her
studies, and later taught for a time in Lafayette, Columbus and
Vernon, Indiana. She was married October 16, 1866, at her fa-
ther's home in Vernon, to Septimius Vater of Lafayette, Indiana.
Mr. and Mrs. Vater are members of the oldest literary society
in Lafayette (the Parlor Club), and are the members of the
longest standing in it. Mrs. Vater is also a member of the Mon-
day Club — a. woman's organization. She is a Presbyterian in re-
ligious belief and was for many years president of the Woman's
Missionary Society of the church and also held the office of
president of the Missionary Society of the Crawfordsville Pres-
bytery for several years. During the last year she was ordained
a deaconess in hej own church. Is a member of the Woman's
Auxiliary of the Young Men's Christian Association, and was
the first president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
in Lafayette.
Septimius Vater was born August 20, 1844, in Cincinnati,
Ohio. His father, Thomas Vater, was from the vicinity of Liver-
pool, England. He married Eleanor Palmer of London, and they
came to America with their two children. Mrs. Vater, then a
widow, came to Indianapolis with her family in 1852. Septimius
Vater received his education there and learned the printers' trade
and also telegraphy. In the fall of 1863 he returned to Cincinnati
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and worked in the office of the Times for more than a year. In
October, 1864, he went to Lafayette, Indiana, and became busi-
ness manager of the Courier. In January, 1869, Mr. Vater
bought the Lafayette Journal in partnership with Benjamin B.
Barron, who died about a year and a half afterward. Mr. Vater
then conducted the paper alone until 1882, when he sold it and
spent a year or more in California with his family. In March,
1885, Mr. Vater purchased the Evening Call. This paper he pub-
lished for over ten years, when he sold out. In 1898 he bought
stock and went into Perrin's National Bank as an officer. When
that bank consolidated with the Merchant National he became
treasurer of the Lafayette Loan and Trust Company.
Children of Septimius and Aramantha (Vawter) Vater:
a. Williamson Dunn Vater was born May 17, 1868. He was
educated at Princeton Seminary. He was married November 29,
1899, to Grace Barker of Logansport, Indiana, who was born
April 16, 1873. Williamson Vater is a Presbyterian minister,
preaching in Oxford, Indiana.
b. Thomas Eugene Vater was born April 5, "1871 ; died July
15, 1871.
c. Agnes Eugenie Vater was born June 29, 1872. She is an
active member of the young ladies' literary society of Lafayette,
Indiana ; is a member of the Presbyterian Church and superin-
tendent of the primary department of the Sabbath-school ; has
traveled abroad and in her own country.
(5) William Smith Vawter, son of Williamson and Mary
(Crowder) Vawter, was born near Vernon, Jennings county,
Indiana, April i, 1845. ^^ passed through the various grades
of the school in Vernon and graduated in a commercial college
in Cincinnati, Ohio. Returning to Vernon, was deputy county
clerk for about a year, when he became editor and proprietor of
the Vernon Banner, which he continued to run successfully for
two ^ears. In 1875 h^' with his father and brother, moved to
California, and they were among those who helped in the first
building up of the town of Santa Monica, on the shores of the
Pacific ocean, twenty miles from Los Angeles. Here William
Vawter took part in the affairs of the community. When the
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public school was started he became one of the trustees, serving
three years. When the village became a city he was elected a
trustee and served in that capacity for four years. He, together
w^ith his father and brother, organized the First National Bank
of Santa Monica and built the street-car line from Santa Monica
to the Soldiers' Home. William S. Vawter has always been a
republican in politics and an earnest worker in his party. When
Benjamin Harrison was the chief executive of the nation W. S.
Vawter was appointed to the position of postmaster of Santa
Monica, which position he held until the election of Mr. Cleve-
land, when he tendered his resignation.
William S. Vawter was married in 1868 to Sarah McClaskey,
daughter of Judge Isaac McClaskey of Jackson county, Indiana.
Sarah (McClaskey) Vawter was born August 20, 1852, at Salem,
Indiana.
Children :
a. A son, born January 15, 1875 ; died at birth.
b. Mary Charlotte Vawter was born July 29, 1871. She at-
tended school at the Western College, Oxford, Ohio, and after-
wards graduated in Hanna College in Los Angeles, California.
She was married June 2, 1891. to John Rigdon Moore, who was
born in Washington, D. C, October 2. 1863. John R. Moore is
the son of John Francis and Bettie (Rigdon) Moore, and the
grandson of William Moore, one of the oldest residents of Wash-
ington City. He was educated at the public schools in Washing-
ton and at Emerson Institute. Is connected with a bank in Los
Angeles, California.
(6) Edwin James Vawter, son of Williamson D. and Mary
(Crowder) Vawter, was born in Vernon, Jennings county, In-
diana, November 26, 1848. He was educated in the public and
private schools of Vernon. He early showed a decided tendency
for business and made his first venture as a newspaper man on
the Vernon Banner. He was soon taken into partnership with his
father, W. D. Vawter, in general merchandise, at the old "Vawter
Corner" in Vernon. The firm name was W. D. and E. J. Vawter.
On the removal of the W. D. Vawter family to California in
1875 the partnership between father and son continued. E. J.
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Vawter was a stockholder and pioneer in the "Indiana Colony,"
which located where Pasadena, California, is now. The Vawter
families afterwards settled in Santa Monica, Los Angeles county,
California, and, the business expanding by the addition of lumber
yards, barley and planing mills, W. S. Vawter also became a
partner.
E. J. Vawter then organized a company to carry on real estate
transactions, banking, railroading, etc. He, with his father and
brother, organized the First National Bank of Santa Monica in
1888, and he was elected cashier. During this time they incorpo-
rated, built and operated the first street railway in Santa Monica,
afterwards selling their road to the Los Angeles and Pacific Elec-
tric Railway Company. The First National Bank of Santa Mon-
ica was sold in 1893 to Senator Jones of Nevada, and was soon
after disorganized, a state institution taking its place.
Together with his father and brother E. J. Vawter then organ-
ized a commercial company and also a state bank, called "The
Commercial Bank of Santa Monica," W. S. Vawter being elected
president. W. D. Vawter dying in the summer of 1894, W. S.
Vawter withdrew from the company, and E. J. Vawter succeeded
to the presidency of the bank and was the controller of the com-
mercial company's affairs. Having brought the interests of the
Vawter families to a condition where he could close out the bank-
ing business without too great a sacrifice, he took that step in
1899. He remains the president and manager of the commercial
company, which represents the properties left himself and four
sisters by the will of their father. He is now president of the
First National Bank of Ocean Park, California.
E. J. Vawter is also engaged in floriculture, making a specialty
of the cultivation of the carnation and the violet for the market.
His carnation field is said to be the largest flower garden in the
world. From twelve to twenty thousand blooms are cut from it
daily. The Vawter carnation fields are considered one of the
wonders of California, and are visited by people from all parts
of the world.
In politics E. J. Vawter is a republican. He cast his first presi-
dential vote for Grant in 1872; was a member of the town council
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of Vernon, Indiana, for two years ; was twice a delegate to state,
once to congressional, and many times to county conventions
while in Indiana. In California he was three times state delegate
and often was delegate to county conventions ; was for six years a
member of the city council of Santa Monica, and for six years a
member of the school board. He united with the Presbyterian
Church of Santa Monica, California, March 8, 1896.
Edwin J. Vawter was married at Vernon, Indiana, May 25,
1870, to Laura Dixon by Rev. Washington Malick. Laura
(Dixon) Vawter, the daughter of Samuel M. and Belinda (Fos-
ter) Dixon, of Vernon, was born May 20, 1851 ; died March i,
1886. There was one child, Edwin J. Vawter, Jr.
Edwin J. Vawter was married, second, September 18, 1888,
to Mrs. Isabelle L. Nelson, daughter of William and Rose
(Ward) Cummings, who was born November 7, 1857. There
are no children of the second marriage, but Mr. Vawter and wife
are rearing two little girls, Charlotte and Ida Belle Baird, whose
parents are both dead.
a. Edwin James Vawter, Jr., son of Edwin J. and Laura
(Dixon) Vawter, was born in Vernon. Jennings county, Indiana,
June 10, 1 87 1. He was taken by his father and mother to Cali-
fornia in 1875. After the death of his mother in 1886 he went
to his grandfather's to live. At sixteen years of age he entered
Purdue University at Lafayette, Indiana, where he remained one
year. In 1888 he entered the University of California at Berkeley.
He was taken with an attack of typhoid fever during the Christ-
mas holidays and was unable to return to school that year. In
1889 he accepted a clerkship in the First National Bank of Santa
Monica, California. After this bank was sold to Senator Jones
he remained with the new bank which was soon organized until
it was in complete running order ; was paying teller during the
panic of 1893. On the organization of the Commercial Bank of
Santa Monica in 1894 he accepted a place in that bank, and within
a year was advanced to the position of cashier. Politically he is
a republican. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and
organized a company of the "Uniform Rank" at Santa Monica,
which he served as captain for two years, resigning to accept a
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position as adjutant of First Battalion, Third Regiment; is also
a Mason. He united with the Presbyterian Church in boyhood
and has served as a trustee for several years. In 1898 he went
on a voyage to Honolulu, where he remained four months. On
his return, he became cashier in the Main Street Savings Bank
of Los Angeles, California, and now is cashier in the United
States National Bank of Los Angeles.
Edwin J. Vawter, Jr., was married March 8, 1899, to Bessie
M. Channell, daughter of Sewell and Ellen Channell, who was
born in Arkansas City, Kansas, January 29, 1874. Her father
moved to Piedmont, a suburb of San Francisco, and later to Los
Angeles, California. She received her education in Kansas and
in Canada, completing her course at Snell Seminary, Oakland,
California, in 1892.
Children :
a. A son, born and died July 4, 1901.
b. Marjorie Dixon Vawter, daughter of Edwin J. and Bessie
(Channell) Vawter, was born in Los Angeles, California, March
12, 1903.
(7) Emma Knowlton Vawter, daughter of Williamson D.
and Charlotte (Knowlton) Vawter, was born in Vernon, Indiana,
August 21, 1853. She received her education in the public schools
of Vernon, Indiana, and in the Western Seminary and College
at Oxford, Ohio, where she graduated in 1873. She came to Cali-
fornia in 1875 with her father's family. She is an excellent mu-
sician, has taught the piano to some extent, and has been organist
in the church during her life in Santa Monica. She lives with
her sister Jennie in the old home place in Santa Monica.
(8) Charles Knowlton Vawter, son of Williamson D. and
Charlotte (Knowlton) Vawter, was born in Vernon, Indiana,
September 7, 1855. He was delicate from birth, having a spinal
difficulty. He was fond of music and books, especially of poetry.
When still a lad he would listen for hours to the reading of
Shakespeare and Dante. He came with his father's family to
California in 1875. His spinal trouble increased, causing loss of
sight, which became complete two years before his death. He
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died September 29, 1879, and was buried in the Santa Monica
cemetery.
Jesse R. Vawter
Jesse R. Vawter, son of William and Frances Vawter, was
born July 11, 181 7, in Jefferson county, near Madison, Indiana.
He gives the following account of his life in a record book in
which he kept very carefully the dates of births, marriages and
deaths in the families of his children :
"I was married May 4, 1837. to Sarah Parks, who was born
August 31, 1822. We first went to housekeeping on my father-
in-law's place on Gray's Branch, Jennings county, Indiana, where
we lived about three years. Then I built a double cabin on my
own land on Fish creek, where I lived nearly two years, and then
moved on father's place. After I sold my land on Fish creek fa-
ther gave me five acres of land and I bought forty acres of him
at another place, where I lived for five years. I then traded with
father and got a small farm on the creek one mile below his home.
I stayed there sixteen years, when I lost my health, traded my farm
for town property, and moved to North Vernon in the spring of
1867. I lived there one year and then gave my town property to
my son, William A. Vawter, for the support of myself and wife.
This property he put into a farm in Campbell township, Jennings
county, Indiana. In the spring of 1868 I moved with him on the
farm and lived in the same house with him until I built a small
hewed log house on the same farm, where I now live, this 23d
day of November, 1875."
William A. Vawter (the son) afterwards moved to Kansas,
and as Jesse Vawter and wife did not wish to go so far away, they
went to live with their daughter, Mrs. Mattie West, who cared
for her father for ten years before his death, and with whom the
mother is now living. Jesse Vawter was a member of the Baptist
Church for sixty-six years. He died at Vernon, Indiana, May 13,
1900.
The children of Jesse R. and Sarah (Parks) Vawter were:
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Margaret B., Elizabeth S.. William A., Smith W., John S., Sarah
Frances, James George, Elvira Ann, Jesse Philemon, Aramantha
Maria and Ida Olive.
( 1 ) Margaret B. Vawter, daughter of Jesse and Sarah
(Parks) Vawter, was born October 21, 1838; married August 16,
1866, to Lewis Wagner, a farmer of Vernon, Indiana, who was
born June 18, 1832, and who died January 29, 1904.
Children :
a. Jesse R. Wagner, born June 21, 1867; died June 21, 1867.
b. Ethel Wagner, born January i, 1871 ; married June 18,
1890, to Martin A. Shepherd. They have one child, Ralph, who
was born September 16. 1895.
Martin A. Shepherd was born January 12, 1863. He is a book-
keeper for the Union Selling Company, in the Majestic Building,
Indianapolis, Indiana.
(2) Elizabeth S. Vawter, daughter of Jesse and Sarah
(Parks) Vawter, was born November 30, 1840; married March
6, 1856, to Thomas Clarkson, who was born September 29, 1832.
Children :
a. Albert V. Clarkson, born April 25, i860; died May 31,
i860.
b. Clara Belle Clarkson, born July 30, 1861 ; married April
8. 1884, to William Pool.
c. Emma Alice Clarkson, born November 17, 1862; married
June 17, 1 88 1, to Willard Whitcomb. Elwood, Indiana.
(/. Elvin Grant Clarkson, born July 16, 1864; died May 26,
1865.
e. Thomas Osborn Clarkson, born December 2, 1866. Lives
in Butlerville, Indiana.
/. Jesse F. Clarkson. born August 15, 1870. Lives in Vernon,
Indiana.
g. Edith Idella Clarkson, born February 4, 1874; married
. Lives in Elwood, Indiana.
Bertha May Clarkson. born December 31, 1878; married .
Elwood, Indiana.
(3) William xAllan Vawter, son of Jesse and Sarah (Parks)
Vawter, was born July 13, 1842; married at Brewersville, In-
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diana, March 28, 1861, to Angelina E. Cheever, who was born
in Brewersville, Indiana, July 24, 1842.
William A. Vawter enlisted during the Civil War in Company
E, Eighty-Second Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, August
13, 1862, and served until the close of the war. Was never
wounded or sick, although he took part in many battles, among
them were those at Perryville, Kentucky ; Stone River, Tennessee ;
Tullahoma, Tennessee; Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Mis-
sionary Ridge, Buzzard's Roost. Kennesaw Mountain, Resaca,
Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, and many other minor engagements.
William Vawter is a farmer living in Edna, Kansas.
Children :
a. Amelia Frances Vawter was born near North Vernon, Jen-
nings county, Indiana, March 19, 1862 ; married to H. L. Holton,
who was born in Bethel, Ripley county, Indiana, April 22, 1858.
He is a farmer, and, with his family, lives in Canada townships
Labette county, Kansas.
Children :
(a) Annie J. Holton, born March 15, 1882.
(b) Lelia May Holton, born August 23, 1883.
(c) Clyde E. Holton, born July 26, 1886; died August 21,
1902,
(d) Adda Holton, born March 29, 1888.
(e) Meta A. Holton, born March 11, 1890; died May 20,
1890.
(f) Elizabeth Holton, born June 2, 1892.
b. Clara Adaline Vawter Avas born near North Vernon, Jen-
nings county, Indiana, August 19, 1865; married to Bowen C.
Heath, who was born at Butlerville, Jennings county, Indiana,
September 22, 1864. He is a farmer. They live near Edna, La-
bette county, Kansas.
Children :
(a) William A. Heath, born July 28, 1889.
(b) Sarah A. Heath, born August 10, 1891.
(c) Ray Heath, born May 12. 1894.
(d) James H. Heath, born February 27, 1896; died April 12,
1896.
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(e) Ruth Heath, born March 30, 1897.
(f) Fern Heath, born October 9, 1899.
(g) Bowen C. Heath, born November 26, 1901.
(4) Smith W. Vawter, son of Jesse and Sarah (Parks) Vaw-
ter, was born in Jennings county, Indiana, March 27, 1844; mar-
ried near Greensburg, Indiana, March 26, 1871, to Lucinda John-
son, who was born in Montgomery county, Indiana, February 18,
1845-
Smith W. Vawter is engaged in agriculture and horticuhure.
He is a Baptist and a repubHcan of long standing. He offered his
services three times during the Civil War, but was refused be-
cause he did not meet the physical requirements. He lives in
Springdale, Arkansas.
Children :
a. Sarah Rebecca Vawter, born January 21, 1872.
b. Cora Luvinia Vawter, born June 20, 1874; married March
20, 1895, to William Henry Brown, who was born September
14, 1847, in Union county, Indiana. They have one child, Wilbur
Fee Brown. Live at Lowell, Benton county, Arkansas.
c. James Oscar, born June i, 1881 ; died August 16, 1881.
d. Wilbert Carl, born November 11, 1883; died De-
cember 5, 1883.
Twins -i e. Albert Jesse, born November 11, 1883. Is a part-
ner in the firm of Hammond & Vawter, Tailor-
ing, Cherryvale, Kansas.
/. Otis Estis, born November 16, 1889.
(5) John S. Vawter, son of Jesse and Sarah (Parks) Vawter,
was born in Jennings county, Indiana, April 2, 1847; married
at North Vernon, Indiana, May 3, 1868, to Elizabeth Grinstead,
the daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Grinstead, who was born
in Jefferson county, Indiana, October 7, 1843.
John S. Vawter is a farmer. Lives at Keota, Missouri.
Children of John S. and Elizabeth (Grinstead) Vawter:
a. Margaret J. Vawter, born at North Vernon, Indiana, April
7, 1869; married February 24, 1889, to William F. Philliber.
They live in Neosho, Newton county, Missouri.
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Children of William and Margaret ( Vawter) Philliber :
(a) Otto Philliber, born November 20, 1889; died December
2, 1889.
(b) Orvill L. Philliber, born May 3, 1891.
(c) Oral Floyd Philliber, born January 27, 1894.
(d) Ira Grace Philliber, born April 4, 1895; died August 19,
1899.
(e) Clara B. Philliber, born July 3, 1897; died July 17, 1898.
(f) Perry H. Philliber, born November 3, 1898 ; died Novem-
ber 5, 1899.
(g) Raymond L. Philliber, born June 10, 1901.
(h) Mary E. Philliber, born October 12, 1902.
b. Everett E. Vawter v^as born in Queensville, Indiana, May
17, 1872; married to Mahala A. Sanders, October 31, 1895.
They live in Keota, Macon county, Missouri.
Children of Everett E. and Mahala (Sanders) Vawter:
(a) Ira E. Vawter, who was born March 17, 1897, and died
August 13, 1897.
(b) John I. Vawter, born January 10, 1898.
(c) Alma B. Vawter, born February 7, 1900.
(d) Homer W. Vawter, born August 22, 1902; died March
16, 1903.
c. Clyde Elmer Vawter, born at Floris, Davis county, Iowa,
March 18, 1874; died February 27, 1875.
d. Maud Ellen Vawter was born at Floris, Davis county,
Iowa, November 20, 1875; married September 15, 1895, to Wil-
liam F. Moodey. They live at Clarence, Shelby county, Missouri.
Children of William F. and Maud (Vawter) Moodey:
(a) Ira M. Moodey, born May 27, 1896; died July 27, 1896.
(b) Velma E. Moodey was born October 11, 1897.
(c) Mabel Moodey was born May 10, 1902; died March 17,
1903.
(d) Silvia V. Moodey, born June 22, 1904.
e. Pearl E. Vawter was born October 13, 1877, in Floris,
Iowa; died July 31, 1879.
/. Nona Elma Vawter was born January 22, 1880.
g. Benjamin Irvin Vawter was born at Holmes' Station,
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133
Boone county, Indiana. October 17, 1882; married November 18,
1902, to Hattie J. Woodruff. One child, Emery B. Vawter, was
born December 22, 1903. They live in Keota, Missouri.
h. John Blaine Vawter, born October, 1884. Lives in Keota,
Missouri.
i. Alva Elroy, born May 31, 1889. Lives in Keota, Missouri.
(6) Sarah Frances Vawter, daughter of Jesse and Sarah
(Parks) Vawter, was born May 25, 1849, near North Vernon,
Indiana; married February 7, 1867, to Thomas F. Grinstead, who
was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, November 25, 1839, and
died February 15, 1900, in Bloomfield, Iowa. Was a mail carrier.
Children :
a. Olive May Grinstead, born January 21, 1868; married
August 21, 1885, to J. W. Snell; died March 15, 1888.
h. Fanny Bell Grinstead, born May 16, 1869; died February
9, 1870.
c. Lew Emmerson Grinstead, born March 9, 1871 ; married
September 30, 1901. to Dana Norris. Is a painter and paper
hanger. Lives in Huron, South Dakota. One child, Esther, was
born July 11, 1902.
d. Ella Grace Grinstead, born September 13, 1872; married
August 25, 1889, to A. J. Taylor. They live in Ottumwa, Iowa.
Their children are Frank, Myrtle, Olive, Charles. Mabel, Deny
and Harold.
e. Claud Ellsworth Grinstead, born September 18, 1874; died
September 26, 1875.
/. Bertha Edith Grinstead, born January 28, 1877.
g. Ada Jane Grinstead, born September 24, 1878; married
December 28, 1898, to T. F. VanHorn. They live in Bloomfield,
Iowa.
h. Ora Idella Grinstead, born April 14, 1880 ; married July 23,
1904, to C. H. Hockmuth, who is engaged in the printing busi-
ness. They live at 417 East Sixth street, Des Moines, Iowa.
i. Jesse Edward Grinstead, born November 18, 188 1. Is a
farmer, living in Mechanicsville, Iowa.
y. Myrtle Blanche Grinstead, born February 18, 1883; died
October i, 1884.
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k. Carl James Grinstead, born November 27, 1885; died
March 5, 1888.
/. Vila Gail Grinstead, born January 29, 1888.
m. Emma Ethel Grinstead, born April 25, 1890.
Mrs, Sarah (Vawter) Grinstead lives at 845 West Seventh
street, Des Moines, Iowa.
(7) James G. Vawter, son of Jesse and Sarah (Parks) Vaw-
ter, was born September 4, 1851, in Jennings county, Indiana;
married May 19, 1870, to Margaret Ross, who was born July
16, 1 85 1. They live in Queens ville, Indiana.
Children :
a. Edward J. Vawter, born June 12, 1871 ; died February 6,
1875-
b. Alvaretta Bernice Vawter, born September 9, 1873 ! rn^r-
ried February 7, 1895, to John A. Shinold. Their children are
Arthur E., born March 21, 1896, and Matilda A., born April 12,
1898.
c. Indiana Rose Vawter. born April 13, 1877; married Feb-
ruary 14, 1897, to Moses M. Miller. Their children are Vance,
born November 8, 1898, and Irvin C, born February 15, 1900.
d. Mary Jane Vawter, born July 23, 1879; married August
20, 1899, to Irvin R. Crum. Their children are Flora M., born
June 23, 1900, and Jamie A., born May 29, 1902.
e. Omer Walton, born June 28, 1881.
/. Lucy A., born September i, 1883.
g. Lewis Clyde, born May 6, 1886.
h. Grace G., born July 12, 1888.
i. Sarah Frances, born May 28, 1890; died September 14,
1891.
;'. Ruth, born April 6, 1893.
(8) Elvira Ann Vawter, daughter of Jesse and Sarah
(Parks) Vawter, was born in Jennings county, Indiana, Decem-
ber 19, 1853; married February i, 1883, to Charles H. Carey,
who was born July 29, 1850.
Children : Lila, who died in childhood, Augusta and Vivian.
Live at (Riverside) 3351 Mississippi avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio.
(9) Jesse Philemon Vawter, son of Jesse and Sarah (Parks)
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135
Vawter, was born in Jennings county, Indiana, August i, 1855;
married at Vernon, Indiana, October 31, 1874, to Minerva A.
Ross, who was born in Jennings county, Indiana, July 14, 1846.
J. Philemon Vawter is a farmer living near Milam, Indiana.
Children :
a. Bertha A. Vawter was born in Jennings county, Indiana,
August 30, 1875 ; married in Vernon, Indiana, August 6, 1898,
to Joseph W. Gray, who was born in Bartholomew county, In-
diana, October 27, 1874. They have one son, Ezra William, who
was born in Bartholomew county, Indiana, July 12, 1899. They
now live in Indianapolis, Indiana.
b. Ernest T. Vawter was born in Jennings county, Indiana,
July 2y, 1877; died September 14, 1879,
c. Clarence M. Vawter was born in Davis county, Iowa,
March 2, 1879. He is preparing to be a minister of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. Is a student at Moore's Hill College, Moore's
Hill, Indiana.
d. Benjamin F. Vawter was born in Jennings county, Indiana,
July 26, 1880. Lives at Milam, Indiana.
e. Jesse Pearl Vawter was born in Jennings county, Indiana,
May 4, 1882; married at Versailles, Indiana, June 20, 1901, to
Corydon Laswell, who was born in Ripley county, Indiana,
March 28, 1868, and is a farmer living near Versailles, Indiana.
Children : Minerva May, born in Ripley county, Indiana, April
3, 1902, and Millie Myree, born June 23, 1904.
/. Velma I. Vawter was born in Jennings county, Indiana.
June 28, 1884.
g. Flossie Myrtle Vawter was born in Jennings county, In-
diana, January 24, 1888.
(10) Aramantha M. Vawter, daughter of Jesse and Sarah
(Parks) Vawter, was born in Jennings county, Indiana, June 9,
1858; married February i, 1876, to James West, who was born
March 23. 1853; died February 7, 1891.
Children :
a. Nellie May West, born December 6, 1876 ; married January
8, 1898, to Otho G. Wright, who was born November 16, 1867.
They have two children: Opal, born in 1898, and Robert W.,
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born in 1902. They live in Lafayette, Indiana, where O. G.
Wright is superintendent of bridge erection of the Lafayette En-
gineering Company.
b. Sarah Ethel West, born January 18, 1882.
c. Charles William, born July 23, 1887.
Mrs. Mattie West lives in Vernon, Indiana. She has supported
her children since the death of her husband in 1891, and took
care of her father for ten years before his death. Her mother
still lives with her.
James Vawter
James Vawter, son of William and Frances Vawter, was born
October 5, 1819, in Jefferson county, Indiana, near Madison. His
father moved to Jennings county when James was ten years of
age, and his youth and early manhood were spent in the old home
on the Muscatatack. He was never very strong, therefore he
was not expected to do much manual labor. He attended the
best schools there were at that time until he met with an acci-
dent which deprived him of school privileges. After he had re-
gained his health he went to Morgantown, Indiana, and clerked
in a store for his uncle, John Vawter, for two or three years.
From there he went to Lafayette and was a clerk in a dry goods
store for several years. Afterwards he went into business for
himself in Oxford, Indiana, accumulating a small fortune in
merchandise and land speculation. He was married at Oxford
to Minerva L. Bromley, who was born September 26, 1837. Was
a member of the Baptist Church from early manhood. Was
troubled with heart disease, and spent the winter of 1870 in
Holly Springs, Mississippi, on account of his health. He died
February 14, 1872, of pneumonia. His wife died October 24,
1872.
(i) Sherman Vawter, the only child of James and Minerva
Bromley Vawter, was born January 9, 1865, in Oxford, Benton
county, Indiana. After the death of his father and mother his
mother's brother, John E. Morgan, was appointed his guardian.
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The child lived in Oxford for about a year after his father's
death, and then went to live with his aunt, Sarah Pearce, in War-
ren county, Indiana. In the winter months he attended the
country school, and in the spring and fall the town schools. He
worked after he was grown for about eight years on the farm
and then engaged in the mercantile business in Pine Village. He
was married July 3, 1888, to Emma J. May, who was born De-
cember I, 1 871. They lived in Pine Village for awhile after his
marriage and then moved on a farm. In 1893 he, with his
family, went to California, locating in Bakersfield. His wife
died of typhoid fever December 13, 1901, and was buried in
Woodlawn Cemetery at Santa Monica, California. Sherman
Vawter now lives in Santa Monica.
Children of Sherman and Emma (May) Vawter:
a. Edward W. Vawter, born October 12, 1890; died Decem-
ber 26, 1890.
b. Minerva E. Vawter, born June 17, 1892; died October
8, 1892.
c. Everett F. Vawter, born September 8, 1893. Lives with
his father in Santa Monica, California.
d. Nellie Vawter, born July i, 1896. Lives with her cousin,
Mrs. Leavitt, of Santa Monica.
e. Henry J. Vawter, born October 19, 1898. Lives with W.
S. Vawter and wife, of Santa Monica, California.
Frances (Vawter) King
Frances Vawter, daughter of William and Frances Vawter,
was born June 7, 1821 ; married May 14, 1840, to George King,'
who was born May 10, 1814, and died September 3, 1858.
Something of the life of Frances (Vawter) King is best given
in a copy of a letter written by her to her niece:
"My life has been a very uneventful one. I was born in Jef-
ferson county, Indiana, near Madison. Father moved his family
to Jennings county in October. 1827, and settled on the bank's
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of the Muscatatack, three miles north of the town of Vernon. My
childhood and young womanhood were spent on the farm. I
was married to George King in 1840, and in 1841 we settled on
the hill in sight of my old home. Here the sweetest and saddest
scenes of my life have been passed. Here my children were
born, and from here two of them have gone to a better land.
The other three are living earnest, faithful Christian lives. My
husband was born in Ohio. He came to Jennings county when
quite young to build a mill. He was a carpenter as well as a
farmer. He passed into the better land in 1858, and I have had
a long and lonely road to travel ever since, and yet I am not
alone. My children are kind, and I have a host of friends, but I
miss the companionship of a dear husband, and long to meet the
dear ones on the other shore.
"I joined the Baptist Church in my eighteenth year. After
studying the Bible and the principles of the Christian Church I
became convinced that that teaching was according to what
Christ and the Apostles taught, and changed my membership to
that church, and I hope through Christ to pass from that into the
everlasting Kingdom."
For six years before the death of Anna Vawter, Frances Vaw-
ter, her granddaughter, cared for her, and after the marriage of
Frances she took care of her father and mother for about six
years before their death. When her sister Maria died she cared
for one of her children some time, and when the wife of her
brother Achilles died she took his baby and kept her for a year.
She is now living with her daughter, Mrs. Holsclaw, in the house
where she went to housekeeping when she was first married.
Children of George and Frances (Vawter) King were Almira,
Ezra, William V., George Elvin and Alzora.
(i) Almira King, daughter of George and Frances (Vaw-
ter) King, was born April 10, 1842 ; married to William T. Hols-
claw January 2, 1862. William T. Holsclaw was born in Ken-
tucky December 3, 1835. ^^ ^ farmer, living near North Vernon,
Indiana.
Children of William T. and Almira (King) Holsclaw:
a. Ezra Benjamin Holsclaw, born November 6, 1863; mar-
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ried December 31, 1885, to Mattie Deer, who died August 2"],
1895.
Children of Ezra and Mattie (Deer) Holsclaw : Jessie, born
October 12, 1886; Ahna, born July 21, 1888; Smith V., born
October i, 1892, and Blanche Vernon, born March 22, 1894.
Ezra Holsclaw is a farmer living near North Vernon, Indiana.
h. Eva Jennie Holsclaw, born March 11, 1866; married No-
vember 26, 1891, to Edwin Carson, who was born July 30, 1864.
Children: Hazel Lavone, born September 21, 1892; Ethel
Grace, born September 20, 1894; Lizzie, born December 27,
1898; died February 8, 1899, ^"^ Edwinnie, born June 13, 1903.
Edwin Carson and family live on the Greensburg road west
of North Vernon, Indiana.
c. Fannie A. Holsclaw, born February 22, 1869; married
May, 1 89 1, to Smith V. Vv'^illiams, who was born December 10,
1863.
Children: Almira Corinne, born June 21, 1892; Lois Mildred,
born June 4, 1894; Virgil Elvin, born September 3, 1897, and
Helene, born March 22, 1900.
Smith V. Williams is a florist of Bedford, Indiana.
d. William E. Holsclaw, born March 29, 1871 ; married to
Zella Wagner in 1894.
Children : Ruth, born August 5, 1895 ; Hubert, born December
3, 1897, and Gladys, born November 15, 1900.
William E. Holsclaw is in the grocery business in Franklin,
Indiana.
c. Sarah Grace Holsclaw, born January 31, 1875; married
December 20, 1899, to Oscar Beeman, who was born in Jennings
county March 17, 1869.
Children: Wilbur Elvin, born December 4, 1901, and Clyde,
born July 5, 1904.
Oscar Beeman is a farmer living near North Vernon, Indiana.
/. Mary Belle Holsclaw, born November 13, 1876; died
May, 1877.
g. Jacob Harrison Holsclaw, born August 5, 1878; married
June 22, 1904, to . Lives on the home farm near North
Vernon, Indiana.
I40 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
h. Bertha Alice Holsclaw, born December 13, 1882. Lives
with her parents on the old home place.
(2) Ezra D. King, son of George and Frances (Vawter)
King, born September 29, 1845; died May 16, 1854.
(3) William Vawter King, son of George and Frances
(Vawter) King, was born September 28, 1848; married June
19, 1879, to Caroline Vandever, who was born July 5, 1850.
William V. King was born near North Vernon, Indiana. He
taught school in Jennings county for four or five years. Was
married at Franklin, Indiana, where he is now engaged in the
grain and coal business.
(4) George Elvin King, son of George and Frances (Vaw-
ter) King, was born May 29, 1855, near North Vernon, Indiana;
married September 7, 1881, to Minnie Tate. Elvin King attend-
ed school in the country and graduated from the North Vernon
High School in 1879. He clerked in Vernon for a while and
then went to Seymour, Indiana, where he was in the wall-paper
business. He went from Seymour to Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1890,
and engaged in the same business, traveling most of the time.
Lives at 1500 Q street, Lincoln, Nebraska.
Minnie (Tate) King, the daughter of James and Minerva
(Jayne) Tate, of North Vernon. Indiana, was born October 28,
1856. After moving to Lincoln, Nebraska, she became a member
of the Woman's Club and of the Art Association of Lincoln.
She was a woman of wide reading and fine culture. Was a mem-
ber of the Christian Church. She died September 25, 1904.
Children of George Elvin and Minnie (Tate) King:
a. Lula Ellis King was born June 25, 1882. She is a grad-
uate of the Lincoln High School in the class of 1899, and gradu-
ated from the University of Nebraska June, 1904, and was
elected to the Phi Beta Kappa.
h. Edna Hazel King was born February 18, 1884. She
graduated from the Lincoln High School in the class of 1901.
Is attending the University of Nebraska and is a kindergarten
teacher in the Lincoln public schools.
(5) Alzora King, son of George and Frances (Vawter)
King, was born December 22, 1858; died January 7, 1859.
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Achilles J. Vawter
Achilles J. Vawter, son of William and Frances Vawter, was
born near Madison Indiana, September 12, 1823. When he
was about six years of age his father moved to Jennings county,
Indiana, and settled on the north fork of the Muscatatack, three
and a half miles from Vernon, Indiana. After coming there the
children were deprived to a great extent of the benefit of schools,
and the parents of Achilles taught him to read at home. When
the schools were established they were limited to three or four
months in the winter. Achilles Vawter had in some way become
possessed of a desire for a better education, and in September of
the year 1844 he left home with ten dollars in his pocket to at-
tend school at Franklin College, which was then called "The
Indiana Baptist Manual Labor Institute." The cars were running
only as far as Columbus, and from there he went on foot to
Franklin. He boarded with Elder J. Reece (who was at that
time a student in the college) for seventy-five cents a week and
spent all the time he could spare from his studies in chopping
wood at twenty-five cents a cord for Professor Brand. By this
means he was enabled to continue in school for one session. He
then returned home and spent his vacation in labor, earning
enough, together with $17.00 given him by his father, to carry
him through another session, which made one year of study. He
then had to leave school for a while in order to raise enough
means to continue. He spent two and a half months as a clerk in
the store of his uncle in Morgantown, Indiana, after which he
taught one quarter's school in the same place. He then returned
to Franklin and spent one session, then taught another quarter's
school and then went back to Franklin, and so on.
President Chandler and wife became warm friends of Achilles
Vawter, and through the recommendation of the president he
was appointed in the summer of 1849 principal of the preparatory
department of the college. He held this position for one year,
then entered school again. In 1850 he went to Shelby ville to
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take charge of the schools there. He was married July 25, 1850,
to Maria Dunham, who was born April 20, 1827. They had
one child, Ida, who was born February 4, 1856; died October 9,
1856. Maria Dunham Vawter died February 6, 1856.
In 1855 Achilles Vawter was traveling for a School Book
Company, and in that business he touched Lafayette and came
in contact with the trustees of the public schools. He found
them in need of a superintendent, and he was engaged. Both he
and his brother Philemon went to Lafayette in 1855, and both
remained in connection with the schools until 1858. It was in
Lafayette that Achilles Vawter was married, November 16, 1856,
to Elizabeth (Richardson) Baker, who had been before mar-
ried to William Baker, and who had two sons, Edgar and Albert
Baker, at the time of her second marriage.
In 1858 Achilles Vawter engaged to take charge of an academy
to be opened three miles south of Ladoga, Montgomery county,
Indiana. Just before the beginning of the school the building
burned. The next year he was back in Lafayette in charge of a
girls' school, which did not run more than two years. He was
then chosen superintendent of the public schools again, which
position he held until he was elected county surveyor in 1862.
He was re-elected in 1864. Elizabeth, his wife, died October 14,
1864, and in the spring of 1865 he resigned the office of county
surveyor.
In 1866 Achilles Vawter went to Indianapolis and was there
married, on May i, to Charlotte S. Hobart. He opened a law
office in partnership with a nephew of his who was a lawyer.
This business failed, and in 1867 Achilles Vawter and his wife
moved to Ladoga, Indiana, and took charge of the Baptist Sem-
inary. He was at the head of that school for five years. In 1873
he returned to Indianapolis, where he engaged for a time in
teaching; was on the editorial staff of the Indiana Farmer for
a while, and was assistant secretary of the board of agriculture
for several years. In 1877, his health failing, he went to Ken-
tucky. He and his wife had charge of an academy at Pleasant
Grove, near Springfield, Kentucky, for three years. Then he
taught one year in the village of Texas and two years in Spring-
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA I43
field, where he was in charge of the Covington Institute. At this
place he was stricken while in the school room with paralysis.
After this he was never able for further duty. When he had re-
covered sufficiently he returned to Indianapolis, where he spent
the most of his time until his death, which occurred January 13,
1886.
Achilles Vawter united with the Baptist Church in 1842, and
at one time expected to be a minister, as his father and grand-
father had been before him, but he gave this up and devoted his
life principally to teaching.
Elijah Sherrill, a well-known man in Indiana, was a pupil of
Achilles Vawter, and in writing of him said : "The years dur-
ing which Professor Vawter was at the head of the Baptist Sem-
inary in Ladoga, Indiana, where I was a pupil, were fraught with
unceasing care and toil, with meagre compensation, but the re-
sult of the work done can never be estimated. Much of what the
writer is to-day he owes to this man. Very many others can say
the same. The old days at Ladoga can never be forgotten by
many dear boys and girls (men and women now) who received
their first training and inspiration from him. To us all he was
far more than a teacher. He was father, friend and benefactor.
He was an educator of ability. He was instrumental in organ-
izing the Indiana State Teachers' Association, and his influence
was felt in more ways than one in educational work."
Achilles Vawter was a student all his life. He treasured his
books as he did his friends, and they were to him constant com-
panions. He was possessed of knowledge on a great variety of
subjects, and because of his wide reading he seemed as familiar
with other countries and their histories as though he had traveled
extensively. He was a quiet, unassuming man, a man who, with
his love of study and research, could have accomplished far more
in the world if he had not been ground down by force of cir-
cumstances.
Elizabeth Baker Vawter Vv'as born August 11, 1829, in New
Carlisle, Clark county, Ohio. Her maiden name was Elizabeth
A. Richardson (or Richeson, as it was called by some of the
family). She was the daughter of Andrew and Lavina (Corey)
144 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Richardson and had two sisters and one brother. The sisters
were JuHa Richardson Larkin, who Hved in ArHngton, Ilhnois,
and Elenor Richardson Armstrong, who hved in Lafayette, In-
diana. Her brother Daniel hved in Rhodes, Iowa. Her father
and mother died in Ohio of cholera. Ehzabeth Richardson was
living with her sister, Mrs. Armstrong, in Lafayette, Indiana,
when she was married to William Baker, a painter and chair-
maker. Mr. Baker died, and Elizabeth Baker was married, sec-
ond, to Achilles J. Vawter. She died in Lafayette, Indiana,
October 14, 1864.
Charlotte (Hobart) Vawter, the third wife of Achilles Vawter,
was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, October 26, 1825. She was
the daughter of John Hobart and Naomi (Thompson) Hobart.
Charlotte Hobart was related to Abraham Lincoln. During the
Civil War a discussion was started and direct charges made that
Thomas Lincoln, the father of Abraham Lincoln, and Nancy
Hanks w^ere never legally married, and this report was success-
fully proved false by Charlotte Vawter, and her labors in this
matter have been fully appreciated by such modern students of
Lincoln's life as Ida M. Tarbell and Carolyn Hanks Hitchcock.
Charlotte Vawter was a teacher for many years before her
marriage with Achilles Vawter, and after her marriage she
assisted her husband in the work of the schools wherever he was
engaged. She now lives on the old place where she was born
seventy-nine years ago, near Indianapolis, Indiana.
The children of Achilles and Elizabeth (Richardson) Vawter
were William Arthur, Frank May and Grace.
( I ) William A. Vawter, son of Achilles and Elizabeth
(Richardson) Vawter, was born in Lafayette, Indiana, May 22,
1858. He left school at fourteen years of age and became an
apprentice in the composing-room of the printing house of
Wright, Baker & Co.. of Indianapolis, the Baker of the company
being a half-brother of William Vawter. In 1880 and 1881 he
was the foreman of the composing-room. He was married Sep-
tember 24, 1 88 1, to Alice R. Hadley. Late in 1881 he vrent into
the general merchandising business, first at Plainfield, Indiana,
and afterwards at Danville, Indiana. At the end of five years he
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA I45
sold out his business, and, joining with his half-brothers, Edgar
and Albert Baker, and his brother, Frank Vawter, embarked in
the general printing business in Chicago, Illinois, under the firm
name of Baker & Vawter Co. In 1888 the company was reor-
ganized and incorporated under the name of Baker- Vawter Co.,
and the character of the business changed from general printing
to the devising, manufacturing and introducing of improved
business systems. William Vawter withdrew from the Baker-
Vawter Company in about 1890 and organized a company called
the Hadley- Vawter Company. The old Baker- Vawter Company
then took the name of the Baker Ofifice Supply Company. The
Hadley- Vawter Company proved a success, but after the death
of Albert Baker in 1892, it was consolidated with the Baker Of-
fice Supply Company taking the old firm name of the Baker- Vaw-
ter Company. From a small beginning in 1888 the business
has grown to be the largest company of the kind in the world.
From one small manufacturing plant and one salesman in 1888
the company now has four large manufacturing plants in differ-
ent sections of the country and a corps of about one hundred
salesmen and professional accountants.
William Vawter originated and patented, and his company in-
troduced, the now generally used loose-leaf ledgers. The Baker-
Vawter Company has been the cause of a wonderful change in
the business world through the introduction of improved methods
of accounting and handling business along loose-leaf lines. The
general offices of the company are in the Tribune Building,
Chicago. The eastern offices are at 350 Broadway, New York
City. Of the Baker brothers who were in the company, Albert
died in 1892, and Edgar sold his interest in 1895. William
Vawter is the president and general manager of the company and
its largest stockholder. Lives in Evanston, Illinois.
Alice R. (Hadley) Vawter, the daughter of Harlan and Re-
becca (Oursler) Hadley, was born near Plainfield, Indiana, luly
5, 1858.
Children of William A. and Alice (Hadley) Vawter:
a. Cora Catherine Vawter was born in Plainfield, Indiana,
December 25, 1882. She graduated at Kemper Hall, Kenosha,
146 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Wisconsin. After a year at home studying music and German,
she spent a year in Germany and other countries of Europe in
study and travel. The following year she took a trip around the
world.
b. William Arthur Vawter, Jr., was born in Danville, In-
diana, May 5, 1884. He completed the college preparatory course
at the Northwestern University preparatory school at Evanston,
Illinois. He then entered Cornell University at Ithaca, New
York, where he graduated in June, 1905. He expects to engage
in business with his father.
c. George Hadley Vawter Vv'as born in Danville, Indiana,
February 25, 1886. Is now attending the Northwestern Uni-
versity Preparatory School at Evanston, Illinois.
(2) Frank M. Vawter, son of Achilles and Elizabeth (Rich-
ardson) Vawter, was born in Lafayette, Indiana, August 22,
i860. He went to work when about fourteen years of age in
the printing house of Wright, Baker & Co., in Indianapolis, In-
diana, When he was seventeen years old he spent a year in
study in Kentucky at Pleasant Grove, where his father was at
that time teaching school. He then returned to Indiana and
again worked for the Baker-Randolph Company (as it was then) ,
the Baker of the company being his half-brother. Frank Vawter
afterwards spent three years working on a paper in Kokomo,
Indiana, and then returned to Indianapolis. He went to Chicago
in 1886 and became a member of the Baker & Vawter Co., which
was organized at that time. There were four members of the
company, the other three being Edgar and Albert Baker, his half-
brothers, and his brother, William Vawter, Frank Vawter re-
mained in Chicago for about two years, then sold out his interest
and returned to Indianapolis, where he remained until January,
1889. He was married October 10, 1888. to Clara Smith Miller.
He was engaged in the printing business in Kokomo, Indiana, for
a short time in the year 1889, moved to Chicago and was em-
ployed one year by the Baker & Vawter Company ; was engaged
in the newspaper business at Big Rapids, Michigan, for about
one year, returning to Chicago July, 1892, and entering the em-
ploy of the Hadley- Vawter Company, which was afterwards con-
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA I47
solidated with the Baker Office Supply Company as the Baker-
Vawter Co. He has remained with the Baker- Vawter Company
ever since, acting, at the present time, in the capacity of secretary
of the company and general superintendent of its various manu-
facturing plants. He lived in Kokomo from 1897 to 1902, in
Morgan Park, a suburb of Chicago until 1905, and now resides
in Benton Harbor, Michigan, where the company has its largest
factory.
Clara (Miller) Vawter, the daughter of Henry and Margaret
(Nelson) Miller, of Ladoga, was born near Ladoga November
5, 1861.
Children of Frank M. and Clara (Miller) Vawter:
a. Harry Miller Vawter, born in Ladoga, Indiana, September
4, 1889. Is attending school in the preparatory department of
the Chicago University at Morgan Park, Illinois.
b. Jessie Mae Vawter, born in Ladoga, Indiana, September
25'
1891.
c. Helen Miller Vawter, born in Ladoga, Indiana, September
9, 1894.
(3) Grace, daughter of Achilles and Elizabeth (Richardson)
Vawter, was born in Lafayette, Indiana, April 20, 1864. She
graduated at the Indianapolis High School and at the Normal
School and taught in Indianapolis for one and one-half years.
She was then elected secretary of the superintendent of the In-
dianapolis public schools, which position she held for two years,
until her marriage to Ernest P. Bicknell.
Ernest P. Bicknell was born near Bicknell, Knox county. Indi-
ana, February 23, 1862. He graduated at the University of Indi-
ana in 1887, that same year taking a position as reporter on the
Indianapolis News. He remained with the Nczvs until 1893,
when he bought the Gas City Journal. Six months later he was
elected secretary of the board of state charities of Indiana. In
five years he resigned to accept the position of general superin-
tendent of the Bureau of Charities of Chicago, which place he
still occupies, 644 Unity Building, Chicago, Illinois.
Ernest P. Bicknell was married, first, December 25, 1886, to
Cora Scott, of Freelandville, Indiana, who was born November
kL
148 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
17, 1864, and died January i, 1888, leaving a child, Clarence
Scott, who was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, December 2^],
1887.
Ernest P. Bicknell was married, second, January 2, 1891, to
Grace Vawter.
Children of Ernest P. and Grace (Vawter) Bicknell:
a. Ernestine, born in Indianapolis October 29, 1893; died
March 26, 1894.
h. Charlotte, born in Indianapolis December 29, 1895; died
in Chicago, November 15, 1904.
c. Grace Constance, born May 17, 1897, in Indianapolis.
d. Alberta, born March 29, 1899, in Chicago.
Mary (Vawter) Feagler
Mary Litchfield Vawter, daughter of William and Frances
Vawter, was born near Madison, Indiana, December 7, 1825.
Her father moved to Jennings county, Indiana, when she was
four years of age, and the most of her life was spent in Jennings '
county. She united with the Zoar Baptist Church in early life
and was a teacher in the Sunday-school of the North Vernon
Baptist Church for many years. She was married to Ormand
Frederick Feagler September 24, 1843. She died in North
Vernon, Indiana, September i, 1897.
Ormand Frederick Feagler was born May 4, 1819, in Butler
county, Ohio, and died August 2^, 1876. He was a farmer.
The children of Ormand and Mary (Polly) Feagler were
Marie Cordelia, James William, Bessie. Philemon Edwin, Vawter
John, Charles Alfred, Emma May and Roena Kate.
(i) Marie Cordelia Feagler, born June 30, 1844; died March
7. 1851-
(2) James William Feagler was born March 22, 1846; mar-
ried March 30, 1871, to Mary Frances King, who was born
September 26, 1853, and died March 29, 1879.
Children of James, William and Mary (King) Feagler:
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a. Fannie Fern Feagler, born February 20, 1872 ; died March
3» 1872.
h. Rose Bonnell, born February 19, 1873.
c. Grace Cordelia Feagler, daughter of James William and
Mary (King) Feagler, was born October 21, 1874; married
July 20, 1 89 1, to Robert W. King, who was born January 27,
1853. Grace (Feagler) King died at Dyersburg, Tennessee, Feb-
ruary 24, 1901. Children: Mildred Rose, born October 17,
1892; Robert Feagler, born June 25, 1894; Russell Aubrey, born
June 25, 1895, and Helen Grace, born December 20, 1897.
d. Charles Alfred Feagler, born February 24, 1877.
(3) Bessie Feagler was born October 31, 1848. She was en-
gaged in the millinery business in North Vernon for many years.
Is now living with her sister, Mrs. Smartz, in Indianapolis,
Indiana.
(4) Philemon Edwin Feagler was born July 24, 1850; died
September 29, 185 1.
(5) Vawter John Feagler was born July 22, 1852; married
May 5, 1880, to Helen Roseberry Gardner, who was born August
7, i860, and died January 20, 1897. Vawter Feagler lives near
North Vernon, Indiana.
Children of Vawter John and Helen (Gardner) Feagler:
a. -^ Fred Willard Feagler, born February 8, 1881 ; died May
22, 1904.
h. Florence Edith Feagler, born January 7, 1885; died Sep-
tember 13, 1885.
c. Merlin Duncan Feagler, born November 2, 1891 ; died
January 20, 1892.
d. Marie Feagler, born October 27, 1895.
(6) Charles Alfred Feagler was born June 19, 1854; died
July 3, 1858.
(7) Emma May Feagler was born July 12, 1863, near North
Vernon, Indiana; married August 13, 1889, to MacArthur
Smartz.
MacArthur Smartz w^as born February 18, 1868, in Chilicothe,
Ohio. He is engaged in the railroad business and lives with his
family in Indianapolis, Indiana.
150 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Children of MacArthur and May (Feagler) Smartz:
a. Everett Marion Smartz, born January 2y, 1892.
h. Wilhelmina Harriet Smartz, born April 12, 1893; died
June 20, 1894.
c. Mary Elizabeth Smartz, born August 4, 1894.
d. Margaret Fay Smartz, born March 9, 1896.
c. Katie Frances Smartz. born May 31, 1897.
/. Robert George Smartz, born June 27, 1900.
g. Bessie Ruth Smartz, born May 22, 1904.
(8) Roena Kate Feagler, born August 25, 1865; died Feb-
ruary 5, 1876.
10
Philemon C. Vawter
Philemon Vawter, youngest child of William and Frances
Vawter, was born in Jennings county, Indiana, November 7, 1830.
A short sketch of his life, as given in a letter, is here repro-
duced :
"I was born in Jennings county, Indiana, November 7, 1830,
and lived there for the first twenty-five years of my life. My
first schooling was in the primitive log houses of the times,
located in the woods at some point to best accommodate the
sparsely settled district. The first of these which I attended was
lighted by horizontally long windows or openings, closed part of
the time with greased paper. The heating apparatus was a
broad back wall built of stone with a smoke stack through the
roof built of sticks and mud. The fuel was such as could be
gathered from the surrounding timber — logs ten to fifteen feet
long piled against the back wall with limbs and chunks. These
school facilities not being considered quite sufficient, when I
was between seventeen and twenty-five years of age I attended
school for four or five years at Franklin College. While at
Franklin I worked at anything I could get to do — cleaned stables,
milked cows, worked on the road, chopped and saw^ed wood,
acted as janitor at church, was morning bellringer to awaken the
students in college, dressed poorly and boarded myself a good
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 151
share of the time, living on mush and molasses with a little butter
and bread. Later on, Professor Hougham took a friendly in-
terest in me, gave me lessons in land surveying and made me his
deputy, so that the last two years of my college life I did not have
to follow the vocations specified above.
"I came to Lafayette and was engaged in the public schools
here for a few years. Then I went back to the home farm for
two or three years. While there I was married, November 25,
1858, to Sylvia Hunter. After that I spent a year teaching at
Sardinia, Decatur county, Indiana, then a year in a store at
Scipio, Jennings county, Indiana, where my health failed and I
had to give up business for awhile and get out of doors. This
brought me back to Lafayette in the autumn of 1862, and in the
spring of 1863 we located here, and have lived here continuously
ever since. Of these years I have been connected with the coun-
ty surveyor's office about twenty-five — eighteen as surveyor and
seven as deputy surveyor. For five years I was city engineer of
Lafayette, and now am town engineer of West Lafayette. I
think within those years I have surveyed more lands and lots,
laid out more highways and free gravel roads, run more tile
drains and ditch lines, than any man living or who has lived in
this county."
Sylvia (Hunter) Vawter was born in Jennings county, Indi-
ana, May I, 1839. She was the daughter of Joseph and Rhoda
A. (Conger) Hunter.
Philemon Vawter and wife have been members of the Bap-
tist Church in West Lafayette for many years, and are now con-
nected with the Lafayette Church. They have two children,
Everett and William, and have reared a child. Belle Godman.
(i) Everett Bates Vawter, son of Philemon and Sylvia
(Hunter) Vawter, was born at the home of his grandfather in
Jennings county, Indiana, August 2;^, 1859. With his parents
he moved to Lafayette, Indiana. May i, 1863. He was edu-
cated in the common schools, attending the same during the
winter until eighteen years of age. He assisted his father in the
practice of surveying and civil engineering when not otherwise
engaged. During the summers of 1874, 5, 6 and 7 he worked
152 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
on a farm, and farmed on his own account during the summer of
1879. In the fall of 1879 he entered the employ of Murphy &
Comstock, wholesale boot and shoe manufacturers, where he re-
mained until the summer of 1882, then joined his father in his
engineering work. During the greater part of 1882 and 1884
he was engaged in the building of county gravel roads as con-
tractor. In the fall of 1884 he was elected surveyor of Tippe-
canoe county on the republican ticket, holding the office for three
successive terms of two years each, having charge of large drain-
age systems and the building of the Main Street bridge, Lafayette,
Indiana, during the last term. In the spring of 1891 he assisted
in the organization of the Lafayette Bridge Company, being
actively engaged with said company in the manufacture and sale
of railway and highway bridges until the plant and good will of
the concern were sold and merged into the American Bridge
Company, May i, 1900.
Everett Vawter was married May 3, 1893, to Helen Read, of
West Lafayette, Indiana. During the years 1893 to 1900 he held
the position of secretary and treasurer of the bridge company.
Has been active in the management of the West Lafayette Water
Company since its organization in 1894. In the fall of 1900 he
went to Denver, Colorado, to join his wife, who had gone there
for her health. From 1900 until the fall of 1903 he lived in Den-
ver and traveled through South Dakota, Colorado, New Mexico,
Arizona and old Mexico as sales agent for the American Bridge
Company. In the fall of 1903 he, with his family, returned to
Lafayette. There he joined his old business associates in the
management of the Lafayette Engineering Company, engaged in
the building of concrete and steel structures, and at the present
time he is serving the company as president.
Helen Eugenie (Read) Vawter was born in Wilmington, Dela-
ware. Her father was James Suggett Read, and her mother's
maiden name was Frances M. Reed.
Everett B. and Helen (Read) Vawter have one child, Wallace
Read, who was born in Denver, Colorado, October 19, 1902.
(2) William Hunter Vawter, the second son of Philemon
and Sylvia Hunter Vawter, was born June 18, 1868, in Lafayette,
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 1 53
Indiana. He attended the public schools and took the pharmacy
course in Purdue University. He entered the employ of Eli
Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, in June, 1888, as analytical
chemist and remained there until July, 1891, when he went into
the drug business in Lafayette on his own account. He sold out
his drug business in 1903, and is at present interested in the
Lafayette Stove Foundry Company, holding the office of secre-
tary and treasurer.
Belle Godman (known as Belle Vawter) was born at Lafayette,
September 21, 1874; married October 3, 1900, to Jesse Judson
Billingsly. They live in Benton, Wisconsin.
Children :
Philemon Vawter, born July 14, 1902, died 1902.
Nellie Hymer, born August 5, 1903.
III.
JAMES VAWTER
Children*
I. John Watts m.
Louesa Bachman'
John'
John"
David^
Jesse*
James Vawter^
(1783-1872) m.
Sarah Watts
(1796-1879)
2. Jesse Holmanm.
Martha E. Pyle
Grandchildren' G. Grandchildren*
(i) Emma S. m. | Mary Louesa, d.
Judson Williams ) Maud, d.
3. Frances
(1822-23)
r
Howell
(2) Charles D. m. |
Elizabeth
ist Emma "|
Charles Hart
Thomas [
Minnie
2d Julia David-
son
(3)JohnS. m. jone child
Mary Singer '■
(4) Elizabeth L.m. ^ Emma A.
Charles Sheets \ Narcissa F.
' Alfred Buell
Vernon Monroe
(5) James A. m. i ^^^^.^ ^,5^^
Clara Monroe p^^^^ Raymond
^ James Alois
' Jesse Beryl, d.
May, d.
(6) Alfred T. m.
Minnie Vawter
Chester Ernest
Robert Alfred
(7) Frances Helen,
d.s.
Walter Bachman
L Ruth Leotia
(I) Edgar (1844-47)
(2) Mary F. m. 5 George Holman
Wm.Benefiel '■
(3) Ella
(4) John C.
(1850-67)
(5) James R. m.
Angeline Brace
(6) Newton 0.
(1854-81)
(7) Henry C. m. \ Ray
Ida Britton ( Mabel
(8) Wm. E.,s.
i9) Elmer H.
(1862-63)
(10) Thomas, m.
Frances Patton
f Edna, d.
(II) Roe m. J Ei^g^
Tillie Nix [ ^^^^.
f Jesse Beryl, d.
1 May, d.
(12) Minnie, m.
' Chester Ernest
Alfred Vawter
' Robert Alfred
Waiter Bachman
Ruth Leotia
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155
James Vawter'
(Continued)
4. Johnson S. (
(1824-79) m. Diana \ (') Sarah, d.
Moncriefi 1826-92) I (2) James, d.
(i) James Hiram,
(1852-74)
(2) Sarah Elton m.
James Hardy
(3) Willis Isaiah m.
Mary Mclntyre
(4) Spencer Coin
(1857-72)
(5) Johnson Smith
(1858-66)
Olive S.
Bessie M.
Wilbur Willis
James Hardy
George Williams
5. Wra.C. (1827-82)
m. Sydney Olive
Willis (1829-96)
6. Milton S. m.
ist Aureana
Vawter
2d Sue G. Sebree
7. James S. m.
ist Mary Cowell
2d Pheba Almei-
da Rollins
8. Newton Wilbur
m. 1st Lucretia
Branham
2d Maria Foster
3d Armilda Hol-
lister
9. Fanny S.
(1835-76)
10. Susan E.
(1838-57)
II. Thomas S. m.
Annie LeGill
(6) AliceEupheme
m. Theo. H.
Rokobrant
(7) Robert, d.
(8) Theodosia Er-
nest m. Geo.
L. Williams
(9) Wm. Cornett
(1866-1903)
I (10) Colfax, d.
f (I) Frank C. m.
Lillian Lepper
Myrtle Olive
George Carl
Rhoyden
Nadyne
j (2) Jennie F.
( (3) Bert Watts, d.
[ (I) AdaV.
I (2) Effie A. m.
I Geo. S. Kerr
(i) Henry J. m.
Josie Willin
(2) Wm. Camp-
bell, unm.
f Stanley
■{ Arleigh Robert
I Rees Vawter
C Harry m.
Lillie M. Hibbs
(Dorothy Louise)'
Emma
(3)
Fanny Alice m. {
1st John W. I
Deupree
2d Howard Lee
Alva Wm.
(4) Robert Newton
m. Josie Quinn
(i) Milton m.
Laura Shaddy
(2) Edward, d.
(3) Brainard
Fanny Jane
f Florence May
Hazel
Edwin
I Macie Marie
I Annie Laurie
156 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
III
JAMES VAWTER
James Vawter, the son of Jesse and Elizabeth Vawter, was
born April 2, 1783, near the Holston river in North Carolina,
now East Tennessee. He was the twin brother of William. In
1806 the family came to the territory of Indiana and settled at
Fairmount, clearing the farm where Mrs. J. S. Weyer afterwards
resided, near the tanyard, and which Jesse Vawter called Mt.
Glad. James Vawter afterwards settled at Mount Pleasant, now
North Madison, and then at his farm at Pressbnrg, one mile out
from North Madison. In 181 6 he was married to his cousin,
Sarah B., the daughter of Judge Watts. Sarah Watts was born
October 26, 1796.
James Vawter was not an active politician, but always voted,
and was a zealous supporter of the laws of the land. He was
candid and frank in his expression of his conviction of right
and wrong, faithful and earnest as a Christian and prompt and
liberal as a church member. He was a warm advocate of Frank-
lin College and a liberal contributor to its funds. He died Jan-
uary 12, 1872, in his ninety-first year, surviving his twin brother
five years. Sarah (Watts) Vawter died at the residence of her
son Milton in the eighty-third year of her age.
James Vawter had his eccentricities, as had all of the older
Vawters, and as have many of their descendants to-day. It is
told of him that whenever he brought anything home and didn't
know where to put it that he built a shed for it — that he finally
had about five acres on his place covered with sheds. James
Vawter lived on the top of the hill. William Rice had a mill a
short distance above and off the road which ran at the foot of the
hill. He wanted the road to come by his mill and not by William
Stribling's, so he built a fence across the road to force people to
go around by his mill. At that time Pressburg consisted of only
a few houses and, in its best days, perhaps a mill or two. The
houses were not very close together and were all farm houses.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 1 57
James Vawter's house was right in Pressburg, and yet was in
the country.
WilHam Brazelton, a poet of Jefferson county, wrote these
verses :
"Of all the spots here in the world
For honor and renown
I own in Pressburg is unfurled
The beauty of a town.
"If much you travel through that town
Take care your feet and head
Or you will find you'll be crushed down
Beneath some tottering shed.
" Sheds, yes, propped and pottered up,
Without the form of walls,
Tottering, reeling to and fro,
Hit one prop and fifty falls.
"The king of sheds lives on a hill
As happy as a toad.
The king of trouble owns a mill,
And stops the public road."
It is also told of James Vawter that he could not resist the
temptation to hang a gate wherever he saw two trees located con-
veniently for the purpose, and that one would often see gates out
in a field with no fence near. The truth of this can not be
vouched for.
One thing is certain, however, and that is, that "Uncle Jimmy,"
as he was called, had a den. It was something after the style
of the dens men affect these days, only not so luxurious. It was
a very small room, built on to one end of the porch. Whenever
"Uncle Jimmy" couldn't be found he was nearly sure to be in
that den. The room is left just as it was when it was the com-
fort of "Uncle Jimmy." In it is a small bed or cot of some kind.
Around two sides are shelves with jars or bottles containing many
different kinds of seeds. Across one end is a row of nails. On
the nails are hung strips of wood which were cut just the right
size to hold a column of newspaper clippings. In the end of
each piece of wood was a hole so the strip might hang on one of
the nails. This was the way "Uncle Jimmy" kept his scrap
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book, and to his den he often came to be quiet and read when the
house was full of company.
"Uncle Jimmy" wore a white fur plug hat summer and winter,
so one of his nephews said, and he presented a striking appear-
ance in that hat and his great long coat.
This anecdote is also told of James Vawter : There was a
woman in the church who was very aggressive. She got up in
meeting and, after talking a long time, urged every one to get
up and do likewise. When she sat down "Uncle Jimmy" got up
and said : "Some need urgin' for'ard and some need holdin'
back." Then he sat down without another word.
"Uncle Jimmy" once brought home a wagon-load of brick to
be used for some building purpose. He went into town again,
and when he returned the second time he found the bricks all
tumbled down and half of them broken in pieces. "Boys," said
he, "what does this mean?" His grandchildren said: "Why,
grandpa, you see it was this way. We were playing war and we
put a lot of bricks on one side for Union soldiers and a lot of
bricks on the other side for Rebels, and the Union men whipped
the Rebels all to pieces, and that is how the bricks got broken."
"All right, boys," said "Uncle Jimmy," "if the Rebels got
whipped that is all right."
James and Sarah (Watts) Vawter had eleven children: John
Watts, Jesse Holman, Frances, Johnson S., William C, Milton
S., James S., Newton W., Fanny S., Susan E., and Thomas S.
John Watts Vawter
John Watts Vawter, the son of James and Sarah (Watts)
Vawter, was born November 15, 181 7, and was married by Rev,
E. Holt, February 13, 1851, to Louesa Bachman, who was born
in Madison, Indiana, December 16, 1829, and died July 4, 1887,
John Watts Vawter was engaged in the lumber and milling
business, and at one time had plank-road contracts on the Michi-
gan Road. He was also merchant at Scipio and Columbus, Indi-
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ana. He followed boating for a few years, first with flatboats
loaded with provisions for the lower country, then was connected
with the steamboat trade. In 1847 ^e bought the "John Dren-
nen," which ran between Madison and Cincinnati as a packet.
During the Civil War he purchased an interest in the "Clara
Dunning," which ran between Louisville and Cincinnati. Then
he became owner of the steamer "David White," running be-
tween Louisville, St. Louis and New Orleans, and for a time was
captain. He had sold one-fourth interest before the boat ex-
ploded on the lower Mississippi, but he suffered a heavy loss.
John Watts Vawter afterwards engaged in agricultural pursuits.
For two years before his death he was near Baton Rouge, Louisi-
ana, managing a large cotton plantation and sawmill. His wife
was the daughter of Alois Bachman. John Watts Vawter died
September 25, 1875, i" the fifty-eighth year of his age.
The children of John Watts and Louesa (Bachman) Vawter
were Emma S., Charles D., John S., Elizabeth L., James A.,
Alfred and Frances Helen.
(i) Emma S. Vawter. daughter of John and Louesa (Bach-
man) Vawter, was born in Jefferson county, Lidiana, February
23, 1852; married March 30, 1881, at North Madison, Indiana,
to Judson Williams, who was born in Ripley county, Indiana,
September 27, 1842. Judson Williams is a horticulturist, 1331
Palmer street, Los Angeles, California.
Children :
a. Mary Louesa Williams, born in Ottawa, Kansas, February
21, 1883; died in Fallbrook, San Diego county, California,
October 13. 1890.
b. Maud Williams, born in Ottawa, Kansas. January 24,
1886; died in Fallbrook, San Diego county, California. October
15, 1890.
(2) Charles D. Vawter, son of John Watts and Louesa
(Bachman) Vawter. was born May 24, 1854; married in
Laurel Hill. Louisiana, June 4, 1877, to Emma K. Thomas, who
was born in Winnsborough, Louisiana, January 21, 1858; died
in North Madison, Indiana. April 30. 1893. Children:
a. Clarence Howell Vawter, born December 3, 1878.
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b. Elizabeth Louise Vawter, born October 7, 1884.
c. Charles Hart Vawter, born June 13, 1886.
d. Minnie E. Vawter, born August 27, 1891.
Charles D. Vawter married, second, November 5, 1893, Julia
Davidson, who was born in North Madison, Indiana, July i,
1859. No children. 812 South Eighth street, Tacoma, Wash-
ington.
(3) John S. Vawter, son of John Watts and Louesa (Bach-
man) Vawter, was born November 9, 1856; married Mary-
Singer and had one child. Lives in Soldiers' Home in Indiana.
(4) Elizabeth L. Vawter, daughter of John Watts and
Louesa (Bachman) Vawter, was born June 12, 1859; married,
March 20, 1889, in Jefferson county, Indiana, to Charles F.
Sheets. Lives at 455 East Third street, Los Angeles, California.
Children :
a. Emma A. Sheets, born June 19, 1890, in Jefferson county,
Indiana.
b. Narcissa F. P. Sheets, born February 28, 1896, in Jefferson
county, Indiana.
(5) James Alois Bachman Vawter, son of John Watts and
Louesa (Bachman) Vawter, was born March 16, 1862. near
North Madison, Indiana; married March 19, 1891, at Sedan,
Kansas, to Clara Catherine Monroe, who was born August 25,
1873, near Peru, Kansas.
James Alois Vawter is telegraph operator and railway station
agent at Heron, Montana.
Children of James A. and Clara (Monroe) Vawter:
a. Alfred Buell Vawter, born June 30, 1892, at Arlington,
Washington.
b. Vernon Monroe Vawter, born July 13, 1895, at Heppner
Junction, Oregon.
c. Bessie Alice Vawter, born January 30, 1897, at Heppner
Junction, Oregon.
d. Frank Raymond Vawter, born January 13. 1899, near
North Yakima, Washington.
c. James Alois Vawter, born November 3, 1901, near North
Yakima, Washington.
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(6) Alfred T. Vawter, son of John Watts and Loiiesa (Bach-
man) Vawter, was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, October i,
1864; married May 9, 1889, to Minnie L. Vawter, the daughter
of Jesse Holman Vawter. Minnie Vawter was born in Jefferson
county, Indiana, February 19, 1867.
Alfred T. Vawter is in the life insurance business, 2216 Bird
street, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California.
Children :
a. Jesse Beryl Watts Vawter, born in Jefferson county, In-
diana, August 28, 1890; died January 10, 1891.
b. May Vawter, born in Jefferson county, Indiana, May 10,
1892; died July 2y, 1892.
c. Chester Ernest Vawter, born in Vanderburgh county, In-
diana, May 7, 1895.
d. Robert Alfred Vawter, born in Vanderburgh county, In-
diana, October 19, 1897.
e. Walter Bachman Vawter, born in Vanderburgh county,
Indiana, July 2, 1900.
f. Ruth Leotia Vawter, born in Carmi, Illinois, December 12,
1902.
(7) Frances Helen Vawter, daughter of John Watts and
Louesa (Bachman) Vawter, was born in Jefferson county, In-
diana, August 20, 1867; died July 3, 1877.
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Jesse Holman Vawter
Jesse Holman Vawter, son of James and Sarah (Watts) Vaw-
ter, was born at North Madison, Indiana, March 6, 1820. He
was married, February 25, 1843, to Martha E. Pyle, who was
born in Philadelphia, August 9, 1826; died at North Madison,
Indiana, March 7, 1878. Holman Vawter was a merchant, also
a steamboat and stationary engineer. He lived in Indiana all of
his life except a short time in Illinois. He was a member of the
Home Guards during the Civil War. Was a member of the Bap-
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tist Church. For many years before his death he was afflicted
with cancer. He died August 30, 1898.
The children of Jesse Holman and Martha (Pyle) Vawter
were Edgar, Mary, John, Ella, Newton, James, William, Elmore
and Henry.
( 1 ) Edgar, son of Jesse Holman and Martha (Pyle) Vawter,
was born May 25, 1844; died April 23, 1847.
(2) Mary F., daughter of Jesse Holman and Martha (Pyle)
Vawter, was born November 9, 1846; married November 4,
1868, to William H. Benefiel ; died September 21, 1898.
Children of William and Mary (Vawter) Benefiel: George
Holman, who was born in Ripley county, Indiana, and two others
who died in infancy.
(3) Ella, daughter of Jesse Holman and Martha (Pyle)
Vawter, was born September 9, 1848. Lives in Los Angeles,
California, with her sister, Mrs. Alfred Vawter.
(4) John C, son of Jesse Holman and Martha (Pyle) Vaw-
ter, was born August 27, 1850; died April 28, 1867.
(5) James R., son of Jesse Holman and Martha (Pyle) Vaw-
ter, was born October 9, 1852; married Angeline Brace. Is a
farmer, living in Beverly, Lincoln county, Kansas.
(6) Newton O., son of Jesse Holman and Martha (Pyle)
Vawter, was born August 7, 1854; died November 11, 1881.
(7) Henry C, son of Jesse Holman and Martha (Pyle)
Vawter, was born in Rexville, Indiana, May 11, 1857; married
June 2, 1883, to Ida Britton. They have two children, Ray and
Mabel. Henry C. Vawter is a farmer, living near Waldron,
Shelby county, Indiana.
(8) William E., son of Jesse Holman and Martha (Pyle)
Vawter, was born in North Madison, Indiana, October 5, i860.
Is unmarried. Lives in Dixon, Illinois.
(9) Elmer H., son of Jesse Holman and Martha (Pyle)
Vawter, was born April 22, 1862; died March 13, 1863.
( 10) Thomas, son of Jesse Holman and Martha (Pyle) Vaw-
ter, was born in Rexville, Indiana, May 22, 1864; married
Frances Patton September 17, 1889. They have no children.
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Thomas Vawter is a railroad fireman and engineer, living at 529
South Workman street, Los Angeles, California.
(11) Roe M., son of Jesse Holman and Martha (Pyle) Vaw-
ter, was born in Rexville, Indiana; married Tillie Nix April 3,
1896. They have had three children: Edna, born April 3, 1898;
died March 18, 1899, Elmer, born June 9. 1900, and Naomi, born
August 19, 1902.
Roe Vawter is in the employ of the railroad and lives in New
Albany, Indiana.
(12) Minnie, daughter of Jesse Holman and Martha (Pyle)
Vawter, was born in Jefferson county, Indiana. February 19,
1867; married her cousin Alfred, the son of John Watts Vawter,
in 1889. (See record of Alfred Vawter.)
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Frances Vawter
Frances, daughter of James and Sarah (Watts) Vawter, born
February i, 1822; died July 23, 1823.
Johnson S. Vawter
Johnson S., son of James and Sarah (Watts) Vawter, was
born May 25, 1824. He was married to Diana Moncrief in 1854;
died December 6, 1879.
Johnson S. Vawter was a farmer. He was also a carpenter and
had a sawmill before he began farming.
Diana (Moncrief) Vawter was born January 23, 1826; died
August 13, 1892.
The children of Johnson S. and Diana (Moncrief) Vawter
were Sarah, who died when a child, and James C, who died when
about grown.
Johnson S. Vawter and his wife lived at Rexville, Indiana.
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William C. Vawter
William C, son of James and Sarah (Watts) Vawter, was
born in the old homestead near North Madison, Indiana, Feb-
ruary 28, 1827. When fourteen years of age he was apprenticed
to a tailor, and, at the end of his time, began business for himself
in North Madison. There he continued in business until 1851,
when he moved to Jennings county. Here he was married, No-
vember II, 1 85 1, to Sydney Olive Willis, who was born Novem-
ber 24, 1829, in Maryland, and died September 5, 1896.
William Vawter was engaged in the mercantile business until
1866, when he removed to Madison and was with Cobb, Stribling
& Company. He was also in the woolen mill business at Elletts-
ville and afterwards at Madison. In 1868 he began traveling for
Schofield & Sons, and was with them the most of the time until
his death of apoplexy on April 23, 1882. One of the proprietors
of Schofield & Sons said after his death : "We have no hope of
filling his place satisfactorily. He was so true, so honest and so
successful."
William C. and Sydney Olive Vawter had ten children : James
Hiram, Sarah Elton, Willis Isaiah, Spencer Coin. Johnson Smith,
Alice Eupheme, Robert, Theodosia Ernest, William Cornett and
Colfax.
(i) James Hiram, son of William C. and Sydney (Willis)
Vawter, was born September 18, 1852, at Scipio, Indiana, and
died July 11, 1874, in Laconia, Arkansas. He was a merchant
and was unmarried.
(2) Sarah Elton, daughter of William C. and Sydney (Wil-
lis) Vawter, was born October 5, 1854, at Scipio, Indiana, and
was married, at North Vernon, Indiana, October 5, 1891, to
Captain James H. Hardy. They have no children.
Captain Hardy was born in Canada February 22, 1832. He
lived in Covington, Indiana, for a number of years and was en-
gaged in the mercantile business. Has been retired for the last
fifteen years and is living on a farm near North Vernon, Indiana.
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(3) Willis Isaiah, son of William C. and Sydney (Willis)
Vawter, was born at Scipio, Indiana, October 5, 1854, and was
married May 18, 1884, to Mary Mclntyre, who was born in
Madison, Indiana, July 16, i860. Their children are:
a. Olive S., born December 2, 1885, in North Madison, In-
diana.
b. Bessie M.. born January 16, 1888, in North Madison. In-
diana.
c Wilbur Willis, born November 16, 1889, in North Madi-
son, Indiana.
d. James Hardy, born August 12, 1892, near North Madison,
Indiana.
e. George Williams, born May 22, 1895, near North Madison,
Indiana.
Willis Vawter and family live on a farm near Mooresville,
Morgan county, Indiana.
(4) Spencer Coin, son of William C. and Sydney (Willis)
Vawter, was born at Scipio. Indiana, January 12, 1857, and died
at North Madison, Indiana, March 6, 1872.
(5) Johnson Smith, son of William C. and Sydney (Willis)
Vawter, was born in Scipio, Indiana, December 31, 1858, and
died there April 13, 1866.
(6) Alice Eupheme, daughter of William C. and Sydney
(Willis) Vawter, was born in Scipio. Indiana, March 14, 1861,
and was married October 13, 1881, to Theodore Henry Roko-
brant, who was born in Madison, Indiana, July 31, 1859. They
have two children : Myrtle Olive, born November 2y, 1882, in
Madison, Indiana, and George Carl, who was born November 2y,
1889, in Madison, Indiana.
T. H. Rokobrant is traveling agent for Central Electric Supply
Company, Chicago. Lives at 703 Main street, Coshocton, Ohio.
(7) Robert, son of William C. and Sydney (Willis) Vawter,
died at birth.
(8) Theodosia Ernest, daughter of William C. and Sydney
(Willis) Vawter, was born at Scipio, Indiana, June 25, 1863, and
was married September 17, 1884, to George L. Williams, who
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was born in Dupont, Indiana, September 4, 1861. They have no
children.
George L. WilHams is the agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company at Jeffersonville, Indiana.
(9) William Cornett, son of William C. and Sydney (Willis)
Vawter, was born at Madison, Indiana, December 5, 1866, and
died in Whatcom, Washington, February 4, 1903. He was in
the lumber business and was unmarried.
( 10) Colfax, son of William C. and Sydney (Willis) Vawter,
was born and died December 13, 1868.
Milton S. Vawter
Milton S. Vawter, the son of James and Sarah (Watts) Vaw-
ter, was born February 17, 1829, near North Madison, Indiana.
An account of the early part of his life is best given in his own
words. He says :
"I worked on a farm until I was sixteen years old, then at
plastering until my twenty-first year. I then clerked in a store in
Bartholomew county, Indiana. At the end of a year I took full
charge of the stock and continued the business at Taylorville for
one-half the net profit. The country was new, and chills and
fever so prevalent that in the fall of 1850 I sold out and returned
to Jefferson county, w here I was engaged on the plank road which
was being built by my brother John. In the spring of 1851 I
located at Elizabethtown and engaged in the mercantile business,
and in 1852 also attended to the railroad station in connection
with my business. In February, 1855, I sold out to G. W. Bran-
ham and went south and engaged with my brother, John W.
Vawter, in building plank roads in Louisiana. In the fall of 1856
I was engaged by the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad Com-
pany to attend to the business at Amity, which I did in connection
with a stock of dry goods and groceries. In the fall of 1858 I
went to Martinsville and continued there until spring, receiving
and shipping grain until the old road was abandoned ; then I en-
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gaged to superintend a merchant mill until the fall of 1859. In
the spring of i860 I opened a dry goods and notion store at
Madison, Indiana. When the war came on I offered my services
in Captain James Bachman's company and was refused. From
the years 1855 to 1859 I spent three months of each year away
from my other business in buying hogs for Madison pork houses.
In the year 1863 I began to work on the river, filling various posi-
tions from watchman to captain, having an interest in the boats
on which I was employed. I sometimes filled the place of watch-
man and clerk at the same time while running up the Tennessee
and Cumberland rivers. At the close of the war, in 1865, I was
on the steamer "David White" in the Louisville and New Orleans
trade. In 1867 I left the river to look after my affairs on land,"
and have ever since been engaged in merchandising and farming.
I am living on the land which my father entered in 1825 and
which I purchased of my brother in 1867."
Milton Vawter is now seventy-five years of age and is living
in the house where he was born. The house is still in very good
condition. Besides the old home place, there are a number of
small dwellings on the farm which are rented. In a little shed
near his home Milton Vawter has a small store, with groceries
and notions. Here flour, bacon, sugar and the small necessities
which may be needed by the farm people are kept, and the tenants
are supplied with what they wish, paying a little at a time as they
choose. Mr. Vawter is not confined at home at all by this little
store. He is always ready to take friends or relatives around to
see the country or other relatives. The store is more in the order
of a supply house, and people probably only come in the evenings
or mornings.
Milton Vawter is known, too, far and near for his interest in
and knowledge of the family. He has furnished many people with
copies of old times records, and has been a very great help in the
collecting of material for this history.
Milton Vawter was married to Aureana L. Vawter, the daugh-
ter of Pascal Vawter, December 28, 1865. Aureana L. Vawter
was born January i, 1843, in Jefferson county, Indiana. Her
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parents moved to Roman county, Kentucky, in 1856 and to Adair
county, Ohio, in 1863.
The children of Milton and Aureana Vawter were Frank C,
Jennie and Bert Watts.
(i) Frank C, son of Milton and Aureana Vawter, was born
September 4, 1867, and was married May 2, 1894, to Lillian
Lepper, who was born March 14, 1867. Their children are Rhoy-
den, born January 16, 1895, and Nadyne, born November 7,
1897. Frank C. Vawter is clerk of a boat which runs between
Madison and Cincinnati, and lives in Madison, Indiana,
(2) Jennie, daughter of Milton and Aureana Vawter, was
born April 8, 1870, and is living with her father.
(3) Bert Watts, son of Milton and Aureana Vawter, was born
July 25, 1872, and died September 4, 1872.
Aureana, wife of Milton Vawter, died October 31, 1872.
Milton S. Vawter was married November 16, 1876, to Sue G.
Sebree, of Rising Sun, Indiana, who was born February 13, 1843,
in Gallatin county, Kentucky.
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James S. Vawter
James S. Vawter, son of James and Sarah (Watts) Vawter,
born May 9, 1831 ; married, by Elder John Stott, June 19, 1856,
to Mary Cowell, who died in 1857, leaving no children.
James S. Vawter married, second, Pheba Almeida Rollins in
January, 1864, and had two children.
James S. Vawter lived most of his life in Jefferson and Johnson
counties, Indiana. He was engaged in the grocery business for
many years, and was postmaster for several years. He was an
ordained Baptist minister, but did not preach regularly. He was
always a great worker in the church and Sunday-school, of which,
at the time of his death, he had been superintendent for twelve
years. He wrote a great deal for the papers. He died August 5,
1881. Pheba Almeida Vawter died July 13, 1887.
The children of James S. and Pheba Almeida Vawter were :
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(i) Ada v., born December 23, 1864, in Amity, Indiana;
died May 30, 1901. Unmarried.
(2) Effie A., born August 10, 1872, in North Madison, In-
diana; married September 5. 1893. to George S. Kerr, who was
born in Owen county, Indiana, October 14, 1852. Their children
are Stanley I. L., born January 10, 1895; Arleigh Robert, born
February 16, 1897, and Rees Vawter, born August 5, 1899.
George Kerr is a dealer in real estate, living at Bozeman, Mon-
tana.
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Newton W. Vawter
Newton Wilbur Vawter, son of James and Sarah (Watts)
Vawter, was born April 13, 1833, near North Madison, Indiana.
He was married in 1853 to Lucretia Branham, a granddaughter
of Frances (Vawter) Branham. Lucretia (Branham) Vawter
died in 1854, leaving no children,
Newton Vawter was married the second time on October 26,
1856, to Maria B. Foster, another granddaughter of Frances
(Vawter) Branham. They had four children. Maria (Foster)
Vawter died August 2, 1896.
Newton Wilbur Vawter was married, third, to Armilda A.
Hollister, January 13, 1901.
Newton W. Vawter has lived in Indiana all of his life with the
exception of one year spent in Missouri superintending a plank
road running from Iron Mountain to St. Genevieve. Has lived
all of his life in Jefferson county, except nine years. He has been
engaged in merchandising, steamboating five years, and was a
locomotive engineer for twenty-five years. He enlisted in the
Union army May, 1862. He was orderly sergeant in Company
D, Fifty-Fourth Regiment, Volunteer Infantry. Was promoted
to sergeant-major of said regiment and was mustered out when
the time expired at Indianapolis. Has been a member of the
Christian Church for forty-five years. Lives at North Madison,
Indiana.
The children of Newton W. Vawter and Maria (Foster) Vaw-
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ter were Henry J., Will Campbell, Fanny Alice and Robert
Newton.
(i) Henry J., son of Newton and Maria (Foster) Vawter,
was born September 19, 1857; married September 16, 1880, to
Josie Willin. They have two children, Harry, born June 6, 1881,
and Emma, born June 28, 1883.
Henry Vawter was a railroad conductor until he met with an
accident and lost part of his foot. He is now a rural route mail
carrier. Lives at Rockport, Indiana. His son Harry was married
September 20, 1903, to Lillie M. Hibbs. They live in Clifton
Heights, Cincinnati. Their child, Dorothy Louise, was born May
30, 1904.
(2) Will Campbell, son of Newton W. and Maria (Foster)
Vawter, was born September 7, i860. He is unmarried and lives
in Evansville, Indiana. Lawyer.
(3) Fanny Alice, daughter of Newton W. and Maria (Fos-
ter) Vawter, was born July 14, 1866; married September 19,
1889, to John W. Deupree. They had one child, Alva Will, born
February 20, 1891.
John W. Deupree died April 15, 1895.
Fanny Alice Deupree married, second, Howard Lee on April
25, 1901. They have one child, Fanny Jane, born October 5,
1902.
Howard Lee is a contractor living in Columbus, Indiana.
(4) Robert Newton, son of Newton Wilbur and Maria (Fos-
ter) Vawter, was born July 23, 1877; married August 23, 1900,
to Josie Quinn ; died May i. 1901.
Fanny S. Vawter
Fanny S., daughter of James and Sarah (Watts) Vawter, was
born September 27, 1835; died April 20, 1876. Unmarried.
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Susan E. Vawter
Susan E., daughter of James and Sarah (Watts) Vawter, was
born Alarch 3. 1838; died February 11. 1857. Unmarried.
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Thomas S. Vawter
Thomas S., son of James and Sarah (Watts) Vawter, was
born May 3, 1840; married November 6. 1866, at Madison, In-
diana, to Annie LeGill, who was born in Ireland but came to this
country when a small child.
Thomas S. Vawter was born near North Madison, Indiana.
He has lived in Rexville, Indiana, for thirty-seven years. Is a
pension attorney. Served in the War of the Rebellion, the first
time in the Fifty-Fourth Indiana, second time in the Sixty-
Seventh Indiana, and also in the Twenty- Fourth Indiana.
Children of Thomas S. and Annie (LeGill) Vawter: Milton
M., Edward and Brainard.
(i) Milton, son of Thomas S. and Annie (LeGill) Vawter,
was born September 5, 1868; married September 11, 1892, to
Laura Shaddy. They have five children :
a. Florence May, born January 12, 1893.
b. Hazel, born November 16, 1896.
c. Edwin, born November 5, 1898.
d. Macie Marie, born January i, 1901.
c. Annie Laurie, born October 26, 1903.
Milton Vawter is a barber, living at Rexville, Indiana.
(2) Edward, the son of Thomas S. and Annie (LeGill)
Vawter was born May 22, 1872, and died at the age of twenty-
six months.
(3) Brainard Le Vawter, the son of Thomas S. and Annie
(LeGill) Vawter, was born September 29. 1874. He attended
school and graduated at the Terre Haute Normal. Is now prin-
cipal of the High School at Osgood, Indiana.
IV.
FRANCES VAWTER5
(Jesse*, David^, John^, Johni)
(1785-1853)
m.
JOHN BRANHAM
(1777-1S34)
Children®
I. Jesse V. m.
Mary Butler
Grandchildren'
(i) Zerelda, d.
(2) J. Foster, d.
(3) William m.
Martha La-
Masters
(4) Louisa m.
G. Grandchil-
dren"
Scott m.
Julia McDowell
John m.
Mary Kareger
Mary rn.
Joseph Gordon
William m.
Mary Davis
Edward m.
Kate Faulkner
Ida m.
Wilbur Grindell
G. G. Grandchil-
dren"
I Nellie m., two ch.
Edith m., one ch.
I Jennie
J Etta
1 Stella
I Flora
I Hazel
I Grace
Edward
Ida
J Lillian
1 Sadie
William
(^ George
Mary
Seven children
li
esse
Robert
William
George
Saphronia
Claude
Three others
Alice, d.
Wm. Fitch m.
Josephine Camp- ^ William Lou
bell
Mary L. m.
■n
MonroeGuUet ] Joseph Whitte- "! Arthur Monroe
more L
Edward m.
Grace Sherman
Elberta Louise
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
^72>
I. Jesse V.
(Continued) '\^
(5) Jesse V. m.
Mary L. Stark
r (i) Geo. W. tn.
Sarah Huckle-
berry
Uriah m.
Alcey Davis
(2) Elizabeth Jane
m.
Florence O'Con-
ner
(3) Matilda m.
John Brooks
(4) Davis m.
Louisiana
Compton
Hiram S. m.
Jessie Greenleaf
Alice m.
Wm. R.Burns
Delaney E. m.
Nellie I. Hand
Louisa m.
Peter Rodange
Thos. F. m.
May Galvin
Uriah
Maria
[^ Several others
Solan B. m.
Elsie J. Davis
Clara Alice m.
Benjamin Mc-
New
Mary Frances m.
Wm. Fleming
Chester C, d.
Hickman D., unm.
Wilber S., unm.
Florence Jane, d.
Nora Ellen ra.
Clarence Wilson
, William A., unm.
Orlando Parks m.
Carruthers
Alcey m.
Scott Branham
Joseph m.
Elizabeth Brumit
Charles Greenleaf
Harold Delaney
Hiram D.
William Douglas
Alice Irene
Donald
Thomas Leon
Cecil Hunter
Marguerite Louise
Roger Vawter
Oral Ami, d.
Jesse Branham
Orlando Parks, d.
Lenora Etha
} Oscar
I Etta N.
- Norma E.
Wilber E.
Zuma F.
No children
Bertha
Omer
Leslie C.
Christel
Mabel
Daisy m., one ch.
Frank, d,
r Elmer C. m.
Ira E. Downey
(Edna Marie)
Lester E.
IraE.
Russell C.
Roscoe R.
Ji
174
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Uriah Branham
(Continued)
(4) Davis Branham
(Continued)
(5) Mary A. m.
Samuel Brown
Elizabeth J.
Ida P., d.
d.
Davis S. m.
Ida Belle Cooper
Florence E., d.
Annie Laurie m.
Wm. Waters
Spencer Vance
Alta Irene
Bertha Lulu
James Ernest
Ethel Pearl
Mabel Clare
Davis Bishop
^ John Albert
Addie Belle m.
Sam'l H. Pickett
Mattie C. m.
David N. Pickett
Eva May m.
Henry D. Neel
Jud J. m.
Jessie M. Bruce
Maud F. m.
Allen Williams
Ida
Morton m.
AramintaMcEl-
roy, d.
Emma A. m.
Waldo Robinson
Jennie ra.
Geo. Stellhorn
Cora m.
Jesse Everson
William H. m.
Rose E. Walrick
Ezra Foster m.
Viola Smith
r Dunward
-i Arley
I Virgil
{ Hazel
I Glen
j Ine
(6) Frances m.
James A. Wal- -{
den
Charles Fremont
m.
Emma Harper
Estel
Ethel
Lenore
Howard
Mary Freda
I Clarence
(-John
I Harry
Ada, m.
Bertha m.
Seaman
Noble
Bonnie
Homer
Carl
Mauree
Lillian
-{
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
175
2. Uriah Branham
(Continued) '
(6) Frances Wal-
den
{Continued)
(7) James N. in.
Carrie
L (8) Danville, d.
Wm. Orval, unm.
Annie Ellen m.
Wm. A. Jenkins
Uriah Branham, d.
James Richey m.
Elizabeth Baker
Lulie May m.
Everett R. Bo-
hall
Fanny, d.
Hazel Etta
Georgia A.
Elizabeth Etta m.
Rev. W. G. Mc-
Colley
Mary Alice m.
Leslie Good
I Susie
I Alice
-j William
Leslie, d.
(^ Dorothy
James, d.
Carrie
I William
I Walter
Lillian, d.
Maggie
Jessie
Edgar
Donnel
Nora
Jessie Lulie m.
Frank Marshall
Ida May m. ( Arthur
JamesK. Atwood ) Walden
Otis Morton, unm.
. Orion Noble, d.
McKnight
Vera
r (1) Jonathan m.
Isabelle Green
3. Mary m.
Jared Foster
Radie m.
Mandeville Bain
Mary M. m.
1st Ansley F.
Jones
2d Rev. C. L.
Smith
Wm. J. m.
Sadie Brock
Mattie M. m.
A. C. Jones
Jennie
Harry
L Mary
r
-! Olive
I
j Grayce
f Radie
I Audrey
I Harold
l^ Leland
r Melnotte B.
M. Pearle
N. Augusta
I Royal C.
I Isabelle A.
I A. Foster
I Gladys O.
Gayle A.
LJi
176
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
(i) Johnathan Fos-
ter
( Continued)
3. Mary Foster
(Continued)
(4) Maria B. m.
Newton W.
Vawter
(2) Jane S. m.
Granville P.
Campbell (both
dead)
(3) Watts, d.
John A. m.
Annie Powell
Lucy B. m.
Alfred Soward
Gladys m.
O. A.Cook
Henry J. m.
Josie Wiliin
\Vm. Campbell,
unm.
Fanny Alice m.
1st John Deu-
pree
Raymond
Arthur
Leslie
Gayle
C Gladys
-{ Ross
[ Winnie
f Harry m.
J Lillie M. Hibbs
] (Dorothy L.)
I Emma
Alva William
2d Howard Lee \ Fanny Jane
Robert Newton m.
Josie Quinn, d.
4. Danville, m.
No children
5. Elizabeth m.
Daniel Davis
(1) John
(2) Daniel
(3) James
I (4) Edward
I (5) Several others
r (i) Lucretia A. m. f
Newton W. i No children
Vawter L
r Ardys, d.
(2) Henry Clay m. ] ^^^^
Caroline Bate- ^ Hal Howard
l Harrye Boynton
6. Geo. W. m.
ist Elizabeth
Branham
man
(3) John Clark m.
Kate Bromley
L
John Warner
Bromley E. m.
Elenor Wilton
Edith Kate ra.
John M. Covert
Jessie, d.
Ruby Alice m.
Gordon B. At-
wood
Donald
John Stanley
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
177
6 Geo.W.Branham ^
{Continued)
(4) David Hick-
man, d.
(5) \Vm. Cum-
mings m.
Mary E.Gilbert
r Gilbert C.
I Elizabeth H. m.
"I John H. Wagner
David C. m.
Vera Miller
Mary Elizabeth
2d Mrs. Mary
A. Wilson
7. James m.
1st Nancy
Owens
2d Eveline
Adams
(6) Emma C. m.
Joseph W, San-
born
(6)
Larose m.
Susan A. Hal
bert
(7) Ida
(8) C. A.
(9) SmithVawter.d.
r Fred Roi
I Perita
J Brown
1 Thor Warren
Isaac Basil
[ Joseph Warren
(7) Geo. Chandler f
m.
ist. Margaret
Comer
2d. Dicy A.
Green
r (i) David Owens, d.
(2) Martha Jane m.
Daly, d.
(3) Marietta m.
George Bick-
ford, d.
(4) James Harvey,
d. unm.
(5) John Edward,
d. unm.
-1 Stella
Joseph Cary
[" Nelle B. m.
I Byron H. Coffey '
James H. m.
Rose Strother, d
Arthur E.
I Eva May, d.
Edward L.
(^ Bertha B.
Thatcher Howe
Josephine
Cecil Louise
Jule Hubert
178
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
8. JohnT.,d.
9. Jane V. m.
Jared Foster
(i) Frances, d.
(2) Sarah m.
ist Geo. Bald-
win
2d Davidson
Rea
(3) Lucy m.
Henry Corne-
lius
(4) Geo. R., d.
(5) Mariema m.
Lucebra W.
Marsh
Jacob
Kennedy F.
^ Harry B. m.
Lillian Augusta m.
A. L. Brougher; d.
Maud Mary m.
Chas. Ham
Grace Alice
Rade and Royal
(Royal, d.)
, Ernest, d.
Sarah
Lettie m.
- Orr
Rade rn.
(^ Nelson
Ernest
Marjorie
^ Clarence
Grace
Lora
Eugene
IV
FRANCES (VAWTER) BRANHAM
Frances, daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth (Watts) Vawter,
was born February 26, 1785; married to John Branham, the
brother of Linsfield Branham, who married her sister Mary. John
Branham was born February 27, 1777, and died March 20, 1834.
Frances (Vawter) Branham died at Ehzabethtown, Indiana, Sep-
tember 8, 1853.
John and Frances (Vawter) Branham had nine children:
Jesse, Uriah, Mary, Danville, Elizabeth. George W., James, John
T. and Jane V.
Jesse V. Branham
Jesse V. Branham, son of John and Frances (Vawter) Bran-
ham, was born in Kentucky in 1803; married to Mary Butler in
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA I79
Jennings county, Indiana, in 1822; died in 1893, at Litchfield,
Minnesota. Was a farmer.
Mary (Butler) Branham was born in Kentucky in 1805; died
in July, 1885, in Litchfield, Minnesota.
Children of Jesse V. and Mary (Butler) Branham were Ze-
relda, J. Foster, William, Louisa, Jesse, Mary, Sarah and Ezra.
( 1 ) Zerelda, daughter of Jesse V. and Mary Branham, was
born in 1824; died in 1850.
(2) J. Foster, son of Jesse V. and Mary Branham, was born
in 1826; died in 1840.
(3) William, son of Jesse V. and Mary Branham, was born
in 1828; married Martha LaMasters at Franklin, Indiana, in
1850. Is a retired farmer, living in Litchfield, Minnesota.
Martha (LaMasters) Branham was born in 1827; died in
1893.
Children of William and Martha Branham : Scott, John,
Mary, William, Edward and Ida.
a. Scott, son of William and Martha Branham, was born in
1851; married Julia McDowell in 1879. Is a farmer, living at
Hector, Minnesota.
Children are Nellie, born in 1880, who is married and has two
children. Lives at Warehouse, Minnesota; Edith, born in 1882;
married and has one child. Lives at Hector, Minnesota; Jennie,
born in 1884; Etta, born in 1886; Stella, born in 1888; Flora,
born in 1890; Hazel, born in 1893, and Grace, born in 1896.
h. John, son of William and Martha Branham, was born in
1853; married Mary Kareger in 1875. Is a farmer, living near
Hubbard, Minnesota. Children are Edward, Ida, Lillian, Sadie,
William and George.
c. Mary, daughter of William and Martha Branham, was born
in 1855 ; married to Joseph Gordon in 1877 ; died in 1899, leaving
one child, Mary.
d. William, son of William and Martha Branham, was born
in 1859; married Mary Davis. Is a farmer, living near Wrens-
hall, Minnesota. Has seven children.
e. Edward, son of William and Martha Branham, was bom
l80 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
in 1857; married Kate Faulkner in 1882. Is a farmer, living near
Hubbard, Minnesota. Has two children, Jesse and Robert.
/. Ida, daughter of William and Martha Branham, was born
in 1864; married Wilbur Grindell, who is a farmer living near
Corvusco, Meeker county, Minnesota. They have seven children,
William, George, Sophronia, Claude and three others.
(4) Louisa, daughter of Jesse V. and Mary (Butler) Bran-
ham, was born in Vernon, Indiana, November 4, 1831 ; married
May 2, 1850, in Franklin, Indiana, to Monroe Gullett, who was
born October 15, 1824, in Kentucky, and died July 15, 1887.
Mrs. Louisa Gullett lives in Clearwater, Minnesota, with her
daughter, Mrs. Whittemore.
Children of Monroe and Louisa (Branham) Gullett:
a. Alice Gullett, born July 21, 1852, in Franklin, Indiana;
died August 11, 1852.
b. William Fitch Gullett, born April 24, 1854, in Franklin,
Indiana; married December 26, 1894, to Josephine Campbell.
Children : William Lou.
Fitch Gullett is a motorman, living in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
c. Mary L. Gullett was born October 30, i860, in Franklin,
Indiana; married January 8, 1895, to Joseph Whittemore, a
banker of Clearwater, Minnesota. One child, Arthur Monroe,
was born February 16, 1899.
d. Edward B. Gullett was born in Clearwater, Minnesota, July
23, 1869; married January 8, 1895, to Grace Sherman. Is the
proprietor of a hotel in Hutchinson, Minnesota. One child, El-
berta Louise, was born October 8, 1897.
(5) Jesse v., son of Jesse V. and Mary (Butler) Branham,
was born in Vernon, Indiana, July 8, 1834; married February 6,
1855, at Henryville, Indiana, to Mary L. Stark, who was born
May 14, 1833, at Charlestown, Indiana.
Jesse V. Branham is now manager of the Keeley Institute in
Fargo, North Dakota.
Children of Jesse V. and Mary (Stark) Branham:
a. Hiram S. Branham, born in Franklin, Indiana, January 30,
1856; married December 27, 1882, to Jessie Greenleaf of Litch-
field, Minnesota; died in 1891.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA l8l
Children : Charles Greenleaf Branham and Harold Delaney
Branham.
b. Alice Branham, daughter of Jesse Vawter and Mary
(Stark) Branham, was born in Meeker county, Minnesota, No-
vember 4, 1858; married to William R. Burns, of Toronto, Can-
ada, March 11, 1885. William R. Burns is manager of the Keeley
Institute in Omaha, Nebraska.
Children : Hiram D. Burns, born March 20, 1889, and William
Douglas Burns, born May 18, 1893.
c. Delaney E. Branham, son of Jesse Vawter and Mary
(Stark) Branham, was born May 13, 1861, in Meeker county,
Minnesota; married September 25, 1884, to Nettie I. Hand, of
Potsdam, New York. Is in the mercantile business in Minneapo-
lis, Minnesota.
Children : Alice Irene, Donald, Thomas Leon and Cecil Hunter.
d. Louisa Branham, daughter of Jesse Vawter and Mary
(Stark) Branham, was born at Forest City, Minnesota, August
5, 1866; married June 26, 1893, at Litchfield, Minnesota, to Peter
Rodange, of Litchfield. Peter Rodange was born at Cascade,
Iowa, February i, 1868. They have one child. Marguerite Louise
Rodange, born June 22, 1894.
Peter Rodange is assistant cashier of bank at Litchfield, Min-
nesota.
e. Thomas F. Branham, son of Jesse Vawter and Mary
(Stark) Branham, was born August 8, 1869, in Meeker county,
Minnesota; married June, 1898, to May Galvin, of West Liberty,
Iowa. Is in the mercantile business in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
They have one child, Roger Vawter Branham.
Uriah Branham
Uriah Branham, son of John and Frances (Vawter) Bran-
ham, was born February i, 1805; married December 28, 1826,
to Alcey Davis, who was bom September 22, 1807, and died Sep-
tember 7, 1865.
l82 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Uriah Branham was a contractor and builder, and at times was
engaged in the running of a sawmill. He lived near Vernon,
Indiana. He and his brother James had taken a contract to build
a plank road from Genevieve, Missouri, to the Iron Mountains.
Uriah Branham went west and had been from home less than a
week when he was taken sick with cholera, and died on the Mis-
sissippi river August 22, 1851.
Children of Uriah and Alcey (Davis) Branham: George W.,
Elizabeth J.. Matilda, Davis, Mary A., Frances, James N. and
Danville.
(i) George W., son of Uriah and Alcey (Davis) Branham,
was born December 21, 1827; married to Sarah Huckleberry at
Vernon, Indiana. He afterwards moved to St. Genevieve, Mis-
souri. Both he and his wife have been dead many years. Their
children were Uriah, Maria and several others. Their location is
not known.
(2) Elizabeth Jane, daughter of Uriah and Alcey (Davis)
Branham, was born August 25, 1829; married February 18, 1851
at Franklin, Indiana, to Florence O'Conner; died December 5,
1891.
Florence O'Conner was born February 24, 1825, in Ohio, and
died September 3, 1899.
Children of Florence and Elizabeth (Branham) O'Conner:
a. Solon B. O'Conner, son of Florence and Elizabeth (Bran-
ham) O'Conner, was born at Zenus, Jennings county, Indiana,
December 8, 1852; married near Zenus December 19, 1876, to
Elsie Jane Davis, who was born in Elizabethtown, Indiana, April
6, 1853, and died June 21, 1890.
Children of Solon B. and Elsie (Davis) O'Conner: Oral Ami,
born October i, 1877, ^^^^ November 22, 1887; Jesse Branham,
born October 4, 1879; Orlando Parks, born January 22, 1883,
died November 22, 1887, and Lenora Etha, born April 22, 1884.
Solon B. O'Conner lives near Holton, Indiana.
b. Clara Alice, daughter of Florence and Elizabeth O'Conner,
was born in Jennings county, Indiana, July 29, 1854; married in
Jennings county, Indiana, May 6, 1875, to Benjamin McNew,
who was born in Ripley county, Indiana, December 14, 1850.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 1 83
Children: Oscar was born February 19, 1876; Etta N. was
born March 3, 1879; Norma E. was born August 25, 1887; Wil-
ber E., born March 18, 1893. ^^^ Zuma F., born December 4,
1894.
c. Mary Frances, daughter of Florence and Ehzabeth (Bran-
ham) O'Conner, was born near Zenus, Indiana, March 9, 1856;
married to WilHam Fleming, who was born near Hopewell, In-
diana, May 31, 1858. No children. William Fleming is a real
estate agent, living at Greensburg, Indiana.
d. Chester C, son of Florence and Elizabeth (Branham)
O'Conner, was born January 3, 1858; died February 25, 1873.
e. Hickman D., son of Florence and Elizabeth O'Conner,
was born November 24, 1859. Is unmarried. Lives at 2603
Brookside avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana.
/, Wilber S., son of Florence and Elizabeth O'Conner, was
born February 2, 1862. Lives in Indianapolis. Unmarried.
g. Florence Jane, daughter of Florence and Elizabeth O'Con-
ner, was born April 15, 1864; died December 15, 1866.
h. Norah Ellen, daughter of Florence and Elizabeth O'Con-
ner, was born in Jennings county, Indiana, July 29, 1867; mar-
ried February 2, 1887, to Clarence Wilson, who was born in
Ohio county, Indiana, October 3, 1866. Clarence Wilson is en-
gaged in farming and runs a dairy. Lives at Holton, Indiana.
Children: Bertha, born February 13, 1888; Omer, born No-
vember 23, 1889; Leslie C, born May 15, 1893; Christel, born
June 14, 1897, and Mabel, born August 4, 1899.
/. William A., son of Florence and Elizabeth O'Conner, was
born May 18, 1872. Lives in Indianapolis. Unmarried.
(3) Matilda, daughter of Uriah and Alcey (Davis) Bran-
ham, was born December 14, 1831; married to John Brooks;
died November 28, 1852. They lived in Elizabethtown, Indiana.
They had one child, Orlando Parks Brooks.
Orlando Parks Brooks married a Carruthers and had one child,
Daisy, who was married and has a child.
(4) Davis, the son of Uriah and Alcey (Davis) Branham,
was born August 22, 1833, at Vernon, Indiana; married Janu-
ary 4, 1855, at Elizabethtown, Indiana, to Louisiana Compton,
184 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
who was born August 30, 1837, at Paris, Jennings county, In-
diana, and died February 5, 1899.
Davis and Louisiana C. Branham had twelve children : Alcey,
Joseph, Elizabeth J., Ida P., Davis S., Florence E., Annie Laurie,
Addie Bell, Mattie C, Eva May, Jud J., and Maud F.
a. Alcey Branham was born October 9, 1855; married to
Scott Branham July 4, 1873. Alcey Branham died May 4, 1876,
leaving one child, Frank, who has since died.
b. Joseph Branham was born February 4, 1858; married to
Elizabeth Brumit December i, 1881. Elizabeth Brumit was born
July 20, 1859.
Joseph Branham died April 19, 1895.
Children of Joseph and Elizabeth (Brumit) Branham:
(a) Elmer C. Branham, born November 2t,, 1882; married
May 8, 1901, to Ira E. Downey, who was born October 9, 1881.
They have one child, Edna Marie, born January 22, 1902.
(b) Lester E. Branham, born May 17, 1884.
(c) Ira E. Branham, born June 1 1, 1886.
(d) Russell C. Branham, born December 16, 1888.
(e) Roscoe R. Branham, born March 5, 1891.
The widow of Joseph Branham is now Mrs. Jennie Fads. She
lives at Osgood, Indiana.
c. Elizabeth J. Branham was born April 24, 1859, died April
2, 1873.
d. Ida P. Branham was born October 11, i860; died Febru-
ary 15, 1861.
e. Davis S. Branham was born June 24, 1862; married Oc-
tober 22, 1884, to Ida Belle Cooper, who was born October 24,
1868. They live at Gillett, Arkansas.
Children: Spencer Vance, born April 24, 1886; Alta Irene,
born April 23, 1888; Bertha Lulu, born April 6, 1890; James
Ernest, born May 10, 1892; Ethel Pearl, born November 13,
1894; Mabel Clare, born October 19, 1896; Davis Bishop, born
July 14, 1899, and John Albert, born January 23, 1902.
/. Florence E. Branham was born July 3, 1867; died March
29, 1868.
g. Annie Laurie Branham was born March 10, 1869; mar-
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 1 85
ried to William Waters on August 28, 1892. They live in Du-
pont, Indiana. Have three children living, Dunward, Arley and
Virgil, and one child dead.
h. Addie Bell Branham was born December 21, 1870; mar-
ried Samuel H. Pickett June 18, 1890. They live near Holton,
Indiana, R. R. No. 2. They have two children : Hazel, born
July 20, 1 89 1, and Glen, born July 20, 1895.
/. Mattie C. Branham was born March 26, 1872; married
David N. Pickett September 3, 1890; died January 11, 1892.
7. Eva May Branham, born March 10, 1875; married Janu-
ary I, 1899, to Henry D. Neel, who was born July 16, 1874.
They live in Gas City, Indiana. Have one child, Inez May, born
December 8, 1899.
k. Jud J. Branham was born June 26, 1876; married Jessie
M. Bruce May 5, 1901. They live at Greensburg, Indiana. Have
one child, Estel.
/. Maud F. Branham was born June i, 1879; married to Al-
len Williams February 25, 1901. They live near Shelby ville,
Indiana, R. R. No. 2.
(5) Mary A., daughter of Uriah and Alcey (Davis) Bran-
ham, w^as born in 1835; married in 1854 to Samuel Brown, who
was born in 1830. Mary A. Brown lives at 919 North East
street, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Children : ;
a. Ida, born December 14, 1854. Lives in Indianapolis.
b. Morton, born May 17, 1859; married Araminta McElroy.
Lived in Kansas, but is now dead. No children.
c. Emma A., born November 28, i860; married Waldo
Robinson in 1895. Waldo Robinson is dead. His wife lives in
Indianapolis, Indiana.
d. Jennie, born August 9, 1862; married George Stellhorn in
1887. They have one child, Ethel. Live at 306 North Noble
street, Indianapolis.
e. Cora, born October 28, 1867; married Jesse Everson in
1890. They have two children, Lenore, born in 1892, and How-
ard, born in 1896.
/. William H., born August 25, 1871 ; married Rose E. Wal-
l86 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
rick in Indianapolis about 1897. They have one child, Mary
Freda, born in 1899.
(6) Frances, daughter of Uriah and Alcey (Davis) Bran-
ham, was born May 8, 1837; married to James A. Walden,
April 4, 1854; died February 22, 1899.
James A. Walden was born near LaGrange, Oldham county,
Kentucky, July 15, 1830; died February 8, 1899. He was a car-
penter and lived in Franklin, Indiana. There were twelve chil-
dren, ten of whom are living. They are: Ezra Foster, Charles
Fremont, William Orval, Jennie Ellen, Uriah, James R., Eliza-
beth Etta. Mary Alice, Jessie Lulie, Ida May, Otis Morton and
Orion Noble.
a. Ezra Foster Walden was born January 2, 1855; married
to Viola Smith, of Illinois, March, 1879. Children: Clarence.
John and Harry. Ezra Walden is a carpenter. Lives in Franklin,
Indiana.
b. Charles Fremont Walden was born August 18, 1856; mar-
ried to Emma Harper, of Illinois, in 1877. They have eight
children : Ada, who is married and lives in Illinois ; Bertha, who
married a Seaman and lives in Lafayette, Indiana; Noble, who
is a telegraph operator in Indianapolis at the Vandalia yards;
Bonnie. Homer. Carl, Mauree and Lillian, who live with their
parents at Indianapolis, Indiana.
c. William Orval Walden was born October 19, 1858. Is liv-
ing at 1 201 Pratt street, Indianapolis.
d. Annie Ellen Walden was born October 26, i860; married
to William A. Jenkins October 16, 1879. Children: Lulie May,
who married Everett R. Bohall, of Franklin, Indiana; Fanny,
who died at the age of two years ; Hazel, Etta and Georgia A.,
who live in Franklin, Indiana.
e. Uriah Branham Walden was born January 9, 1862; died
July 4. 1894.
/. James Richey Walden was born December 27. 1864; mar-
ried to Elizabeth Baker in 1888. Children: Susie. Alice, Wil-
liam. Leslie, who died in infancy, and Dorothy. They live at 718
North Holmes avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 187
g. Elizabeth Etta Walden was born November 2. 1867; mar-
ried to Rev. W. G. McColley in 1888. Children: James, who
died at the age of two years, Carrie, William and Walter. They
live in Pontiac, Illinois.
h. Mary Alice Walden was born October 22, 1869; married
to Leslie Good in 1886. Children: Lillian (dead), Maggie, Jes-
sie, Edgar, Donnel and Nora. Live near Sheridan, Indiana.
i. Jessie Lulie Walden was born December 31, 1871, and was
married to Frank Marshall, November, 1899. They live at 1103
Eugene street, Indianapolis, Indiana.
7. Ida May Walden was born February 28, 1874; married to
James K. Atwood November i, 1896. Children: One who died,
Arthur and Walden. Live at 1201 Pratt street, Indianapolis.
k. Otis Morton Walden was born February 12, 1877. Lives
at Indianapolis.
/. Orion Noble Walden, twin brother of Otis, was born Feb-
ruary 12, 1877; died August 2^, 1894.
(7) James N., son of Uriah and Alcey (Davis) Branham,
was born September 17, 1839. He was killed in 1896 in a rail-
road wreck. He left a wife, Carrie, and two daughters. One of
the daughters is Mrs. McKnight, who lives at 1523 Deloss street,
Indianapolis, and the other. Vera Branham, lives with her mother
at 507 Madison avenue, Topeka, Kansas.
(8) Danville, son of Uriah and Alcey (Davis) Branham,
was born July 9, 1845; died November 7, 1863.
Mary (Branham) Foster
Mary, daughter of John and Frances ( Vawter) Branham, was
born October 31, 1806; married at Vernon, Indiana, in 1824, to
Jared Foster; died December 24, 1835.
Mary B. Foster was a tall, slender woman, fair, blue-eyed,
very mild and pleasant in disposition, an earnest Christian and a
most devoted mother. She died of consumption.
Jared Foster was born in Genesee county, New York, Janu-
ary 25, 1805. Came from there to Indiana with his widowed
l88 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
mother when a boy and, as was the custom at that time, was
bound to J. B. New, cabinetmaker at Vernon, Indiana. He served
J. B. New until nineteen years of age, then bought the remaining
two years of his time and went into business for himself. He
was a cabinetmaker for ten years, then went into the millwright
business. He moved from Indiana to Jefferson county, Illinois,
in 1 86 1, where he spent the remainder of his life. He figured
some in politics during the later years of his life, and for four
years held the ofiice of county judge in Jefferson county, Illinois.
He was for many years a preacher in the Christian Church. Died
in Jefferson county, Illinois, in 1892.
Jared and Mary (Branham) Foster had seven children, only
one of whom, Jonathan Foster, is now living. Others of the chil-
dren were Jane S., Watts and Maria B.
(i) Jonathan, son of Jared and Mary (Branham) Foster,
was born in 1826; married March, 1846, to Isabelle Green, who
died in August, 1899.
Jonathan Foster lives at Aurora, Hamilton county, Nebraska.
Carpenter.
The children of Jonathan and Isabelle Foster were Radie,
Mary M., William J., Mattie M., John A., Lucy B. and Gladys.
a. Radie Foster, daughter of Jonathan and Isabelle (Green)
Foster, was born in 1846; married in May, 1867, to Mandeville
Bain. Their children: Jennie, born in 1868; Harry, born in
1 87 1, and Mary, born in 1874. Mrs. Radie (Foster) Bain lives
at 2517 Gale street, Indianapolis, Indiana.
b. Mary M., daughter of Jonathan and Isabelle (Green)
Foster, was born May 2, 1849; married, first, to Ansley F.
Jones in April, 1871, and had one child, Olive, who was born
in 1874. Mary (Foster) Jones was married, second, to Rev. C.
L. Smith, and had one child, Grayce, who was born in 1881.
Live at Aurora, Nebraska.
c. William J., son of Jonathan and Isabelle (Green) Foster,
was born August 20, 1852; married in the fall of 1880 to Sadie
Brock. Their children are: Radie, born in 1881 ; Audrey, born
in 1886; Harold, born in 1891, and Leland, born in 1899. Live at
Giltner, Nebraska.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 189
d. Mattie M., daughter of Jonathan and Isabelle (Green)
Foster, was born September 8, 1854; married January 14, 1876,
to A. C. Jones, who was born January 10, 1844. Mr. Jones is
in the saddlery, harness and machinery business in Opdyke,
IlHnois.
The children of A. C. and Mattie (Foster) Jones are Melnotte
B., born November 28, 1876; M. Pearle, born May 29, 1878;
N. Augusta, born July 9, 1880; Royal C, born October 19, 1881 ;
Isabelle A., born September 23, 1887; A. Foster, born November
23, 1892; Gladys O., and Gayle A., born February 8, 1894.
c. John A. Foster, the son of Jonathan and Isabelle (Green)
Foster, was born July 6, 1857; married in the fall of 1882 to
Annie Powell. Their children are: Raymond, born in 1883;
Arthur, born in 1885; Leslie, born in 1887, and Gayle, born in
1895. Live in Glenville, Nebraska.
/. Lucy B. Foster, daughter of Jonathan and Isabelle
(Green) Foster, was born June 8, 1862; married in December,
1882, to Alfred Soward. Their children are: Gladys, born in
1883; Ross, born in 1885, and Winnie, born in 1887. Alfred
Soward is a miner, living in Placerville, Idaho.
g. Gladys Foster, daughter of Jonathan and Isabelle (Green)
Foster, was born February 12, 1867; married in the spring of
1897 to O. A. Cook, a contractor and builder, living in Giltner,
Nebraska.
(2) Jane S. Foster, daughter of Jared and Mary (Bran-
ham) Foster, was married to Granville P. Campbell. They had
no children and both are now dead.
(3) Watts, the son of Jared and Mary Foster, died at the
age of eighteen years.
(4) Maria B. Foster, daughter of Jared and Mary Foster,
was married to Newton W. Vawter. (See record of Newton
Vawter. )
Danville Branham
Danville, son of John and Frances (Vawter) Branham, was
born March 18, 1809. He lived in North Madison, Indiana. He
ipO THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
was a millwright, but during the later years of his life was a
railroad contractor. He had no children of his own, but reared
Maria Foster, the daughter of Jared and Mary Foster, who after-
wards married Newton Vawter.
Elizabeth (Branham) Davis
Elizabeth, daughter of John and Frances (Vawter) Branham,
was born March 4, 181 1 ; married Daniel Davis. Children : John,
Daniel, James, Edward and several daughters, none of whom
are now living. A niece, Amanda Sanders, is living in West
Shoals, Indiana.
Daniel and Elizabeth Davis, during the thirties, joined the
Mormons at Nauvoo, Illinois. Some years later they returned
to Indiana. Elizabeth died at the home of her son, Edward, in
Missouri. Daniel Davis died in Jennings county, Indiana.
6
George W. Branham
George W., son of John and Frances (Vawter) Branham, was
born December 8. 1812, in Scott county, Kentucky.
A portion of a sketch of his life given in a Kansas City paper
is here reproduced.
"Major George W. Branham was always an energetic and en-
terprising man and always took part in the public movements of
the community in which he lived. He was a contractor in 1846
and 1847 o^ the Madison and Indianapolis railroad, the first
railroad constructed west of the Alleghany Mountains. He was
at the same time a contractor on the Wabash Canal in Indiana.
Both of these undertakings were being completed by the state,
which, owing to the panic of 1847, failed to carry out its agree-
ments. This caused Major Branham great loss. With that
sterling honesty for which he was always distinguished Mr. Bran-
ham refused to take advantage of the facilities then existing for
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA I9I
effecting settlements with his creditors. He went to work and
raised the money and paid his creditors in full.
"The outbreak of the Civil War found him engaged in the
management of a large woolen mill at Franklin, Indiana, of
which he w^s the owner. This mill was mysteriously burned, the
fire being believed to have been of incendiary origin, because of
his intense loyalty. By this fire he lost about $85,000. At that
time he was also engaged in the banking business at Franklin
and Jeffersonville, being president of the branch located at Frank-
lin, while Hon. Hugh McCulloch was president of the Ft. Wayne
branch. This made them both directors of the state bank and
brought them into such association that a warm personal attach-
ment ensued and lasted through life. Several times during the
administration of Mr. McCulloch as secretary of the treasury,
Major Branham was invited to Washington to consider with him
intricate financial problems. He organized the National Bank of
Franklin soon after the passage of the national bank law, and
that was the second bank organized under it.
"In 1865 Major Branham went to Memphis with the idea of
organizing a national bank there, but finding it an unpromising
place at that time, went up the river and, after looking over the
Missouri towns, he located in Kansas City, predicting that it
would become a great commercial center. Here he organized a
First National Bank in 1866, which in after years became a great
factor in the development of Kansas City. He was afterwards a
miller, a grain merchant, and for a number of years a prominent
and influential member of the Board of Trade and a member of
the first board of directors.
"In 1875 Major Branham disposed of his interests in Kansas
City and removed to a farm in Linn county, where he died
August I, 1885. He left behind him written instructions concern-
ing his funeral, in which he desired that there should be no re-
ligious ceremony ; therefore a paper written by himself, and bear-
ing date of the day of his death, was read at the grave by Major
Warner, a friend of Major Branham and his family."
George W. Branham was married the first time to his cousin,
Elizabeth Branham, May 16, 1832. Elizabeth Branham was born
192 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
May 2, 1814, and died May 16. 1846. Their children were
Lucretia A., Henry Clay, John Clark, David Hickman and Will
Cummings.
( 1 ) Lucretia A. Branham, daughter of George W. and Eliza-
beth Branham, was born May 28, 1834; married in 1853 to
Newton Vawter, son of James Vawter; died July 21, 1854. No
children.
(2) Henry Clay Branham, son of George W. and Elizabeth
Branham, was born June i, 1836; married November 12, 1859,
to Caroline A. Bateman; died December 18, 1880. Wife was
born in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 30, 1840. Mrs. Henry C. Bran-
ham lives at 1194 Upper Third street, Evansville, Indiana.
Children :
a. Ardys, born October 15, i860; died July 3, 1884.
b. Mary, born October 18, 1862. Is a bookkeeper in Evans-
ville.
c. Hal Harwood, born November 29, 1871. Is a broker, liv-
ing in San Antonio, Texas.
d. Harrye Boynton, born January 23, 1880.
Henry C. Branham was engaged the greater part of his life
in railroad work. He was superintendent at the time of his
death of the unfinished Air Line railroad between Louisville and
Evansville, with ofifices in Evansville.
(3) John Clark Branham, son of George W. and Elizabeth
Branham, was born at Franklin, Indiana, August 3, 1839; mar-
ried at Kansas City, Missouri, January 17, 1872, to Kate Brom-
ley, who was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, January 31, 1854. He
died July 18, 1897, at Mt. Vernon, Illinois, where he had been a
foreman of the Louisville & Nashville railway for a number of
years.
Children of John Clark and Kate (Bromley) Branham:
a. John Warner, born at Kansas City October 27, 1872.
b. Bromley E., born at Fountain Grove, Missouri, May 31,
1875; married at New Albany, Indiana, August 6, 1899, to
Elenor Wilton. Their son, Donald, was born July 12, 1900.
c. Edith Kate was born in Kansas City, Missouri, March 19,
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA I93
1879; married at Howell, Indiana, September 12, 1899, to John
M. Covert. Their son, John Stanley, was born February 6, 1902.
d. Jessie, born at Mt. Vernon, Illinois, October 14, 1882;
died November 18, 1882.
e. Ruby Alice was born at Mt. Vernon, Illinois, July 27,
1884; married May 23, 1904, at Evansville, Indiana, to Gordon
B. At wood.
(4) David Hickman, son of George W. and Elizabeth Bran-
ham, was born April 4, 1841 ; died July 28, 1843.
(5) Will Cummings, son of George W. and Elizabeth Bran-
ham, was born at Elizabethtown, Indiana, March 30, 1843; mar-
ried December 25, 1866, to Mary Elizabeth Gilbert, who was
born at Columbus, Indiana. October 7, 1844.
William C. Branham lived the greater part of his life in Kan-
sas City. He died in Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 29, 1894.
Children of William C. and Mary (Gilbert) Branham :
a. Gilbert C. Branham was born in Kansas City, July 14,
1868. Lives in Kansas City.
h. Elizabeth Hoolbrook Branham was born in Kansas City,
February 17, 1873; married August 15, 1901, to John H. Wag-
ner. One child, Mary Elizabeth, was born October 13, 1902.
c. David C. Branham was born in Kansas City, Missouri,
November 10, 1877; married September 24, 1902, to Vera Miller.
Lives in Kansas City.
George W. Branham was married, second, December 28, 1847,
to Mrs. Mary Adams Wilson, who was born in Boston Corners,
Erie county. New York, October 5, 181 8.
Their children were :
(i) Emma Cary Branham, born August 29, 1852, at Frank-
lin, Indiana; married November 16, 1871, to Joseph Warren
Sanborn at Kansas City, Missouri. Mr. Sanborn is engaged in
the lumber business. They had five children, Fred Roi, Perita
Brown, Thor Warren, Isaac Basil and Joseph Warren, Jr. They
live at 3010 East Tenth street, Kansas City, Missouri.
(2) George Chandler Branham was born February 14, i860,
at Franklin, Indiana; married to Margaret Susan Comer at
194 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Meadville, Missouri, October 5, 1880. They had one child,
Stella, born September 22, 1881, at Kansas City, Missouri.
Margaret (Comer) Branham died April 2, 1882.
George Chandler Branham was married, second, to Dicy A.
Green, June 20, 1889, at Chillicothe, Missouri. They had one
child, Joseph Gary, born December 19, 1890, at Merriam, Kansas.
George Chandler Branham died May 3, 1895, at Kansas City,
Missouri. His two children are living with his mother, Mrs.
Mary Branham, at Merriam, Johnson county, Kansas.
James Branham
James Branham, son of John and Frances (Vawter) Bran-
ham, was born July 14, 181 5 ; married to Nancy Owens, January
30, 1834.
James Branham was a contractor on the Iron Mountain Plank
Road in 1852. He was in the milling business in the early fifties
in Greensburg, Indiana. From there he moved to Vernon about
1858, and took contracts there for a few years, building the
court-house about i860. After that he went with D. C. Branham
into railroad construction, he being master bridge carpenter. He
was on the Martinsville and Fairland road, the Rushville and
Connersville road, and, up to within two years of his death, with
the Indianapolis and Vincennes road. He moved from Vernon
to Spencer in 1869. Died December 25, 1872.
Nancy (Owens) Branham was born December 26, 181 2; died
August 2^, 1847.
Children of James and Nancy (Owens) Branham:
(i) David Owens Branham was born November 11, 1834;
died March 12, 1841.
(2) Martha Jane, daughter of James and Nancy (Owens)
Branham, was born October i, 1836; married Daly; died
December 31, 1863.
(3) Marietta Branham was born October 15, 1839; mar-
ried George Bickford ; died January 21, 1867.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA I95
(4) James Harvey Branham was born May lo, 1843; ^'^^^
November 3. 1875. Umnarried.
(5) John Edward Branham was born March 9, 1846; killed
in battle August 30, 1862.
James Branham was married, second, to Eveline Adams, De-
cember 4. 1847. Eveline Adams, daughter of Alexander and
Hannah Adams, was born December 11. 1825; died September
24, 1867.
Children of James and Eveline (Adams) Branham:
(i) Larose Branham, born August 18, 1852; married to
Susan A. Halbert, December 15, 1872. Susan A. Halbert was
born in Spencer, Indiana, September 19, 1854.
Children of Larose and Susan (Halbert) Branham:
a. Nelle B. Branham, born September 26, 1873; married
January 10, 1894, to Byron Howe Coffey, who was born at Spen-
cer, Indiana. January 29, 1866. Mr. Coffey is a grocer, living
at 901 Eugene street. North Indianapolis, Indiana.
Children: Thatcher Howe Coffey, born February 7, 1895;
Josephine, born March 22, 1896; Cecil Louise, born November
25, 1897; J"-^!^ Hubert, born December 25, 1899. All born at
Spencer, Indiana.
b. James H. Branham, born September 29, 1875; married
to Rose Strother; died October 17, 1898. No children.
c. Arthur E. Branham, born October 24, 1877. Is a stenog-
rapher and bookkeeper, living at 501 East Fourteenth street,
Kansas City, Missouri.
d. Eva May Branham was born December 17, 1883; died
November 6, 1884.
e. Edward L. Branham was born November 13, 1885. Lives
with his parents in Spencer.
/. Bertha B. Branham was born October 28, 1892.
(2) Ida Branham, daughter of James and Eveline Branham
was born May 3, 1854.
(3) C. A. Branham, son of James and Eveline Branham, was
born April 20. 1857. Lives at 838 Thirteenth street, Denver,
Colorado.
196 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
(4) Smith Vawter Branham, son of James and Eveline
Branham, was born March 25, 1859. Died.
8
John T. Branham
John T., son of John and Frances (Vawter) Branham, was
born August 16, 1819; died in childhood.
Jane (Branham) Foster
Jane V. Branham, daughter of John and Frances (Vawter)
Branham, was born May 16, 1820. She was married to Jared
Foster in 1837. She was tall and slender, with dark eyes and
hair. She died March 10, 1845, at the age of twenty-five years.
The children of Jared and Jane V. Foster were Frances, Sarah,
Lucy, George Riley and Mariema.
( 1 ) Frances Foster, daughter of Jared and Jane V. Foster,
was born in 1838, and died in infancy.
(2) Sarah Foster, daughter of Jared and Jane V. Foster,
was born January 10, 1839; married April 5, 1855, to George
Baldwin, who died March 11, i860.
Jacob Baldwin, son of George and Sarah (Foster) Baldwin,
was born January 15, 1856.
Sarah (Foster) Baldwin married Davidson Rea, March 11,
1864. They had one child. Kennedy F. Rea, born December 10,
1868. Sarah F. Baldwin Rea died February 14, 1880. Kennedy
F. Rea lives in Washington, D. C.
(3) Lucy Foster, daughter of Jared and Jane (Branham)
Foster, was born January 13, 1841 ; married to Henry Cornelius,
September, i860, in Jefferson county, Illinois. Henry Cornelius
was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, July 26, 1838.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA I97
Children :
a. Harry B., born July 19, 1863; married August 26, 1886,
and removed to Nebraska, where he is engaged in the real estate
business. He has two children, Ernest and Marjorie.
b. Lillian Augusta, born September 6, 1864; married April
12, 1885, to A. L. Brougher; died April 30, 1886.
c. Maud Mary, born October i, 1866; married November 16,
1884, to Charles Ham, a farmer, near Opdyke, Illinois. They
have four children, Clarence, Grace, Lora and Eugene.
d. Grace AHce, born July 9, 1873.
e. Rade and Royal (twins), born March 19, 1875. Royal
died.
/. Ernest, born February 8, 1877; died in May, 1877.
Henry B. Cornelius and family live in Opdyke, Illinois.
(4) George R. Foster, son of Jared and Jane V. Foster, was
born January 7, 1844; died in infancy.
(5) Mariema Foster, daughter of Jared and Jane V. Foster,
was born March 7, 1845; married March 18, 1868, to Lucebra
W. Marsh, who was born in Reddington, Indiana, February 15,
1846, and was shot by a burglar who entered the house on New
Years night, 1892.
Children of Lucebra W. and Mariema Marsh :
a. Sarah Marsh, born April 12, 1869, at Reddington, In-
diana. Is a teacher, living in Seymour, Indiana.
b. Lettie Marsh-Orr, born April 29, 1872, at Reddington,
Indiana. Is a nurse, living at Seymour, Indiana.
c. Rade Marsh Nelson, born December 24, 1875, at Red-
dington, Indiana. Is a stenographer, living at Columbus, Indiana.
Mrs. Mariema (Foster) Marsh lives at Seymour, Indiana.
V.
MARY VAWTER5
(Jesse^, Davids, John^, Johni)
(1787-1846)
m,
LINSFIELD BRANHAM
(1784-1825)
Children*
I. Granville, d. s.
Grandchildren'
2. Julia Ann m.
Henry Webb
3. Benjamin m.
Letitia Kidd
G. Grandchil-
dren^
r IdaM.,d.s.
Edwin P. m.
Mary E. Hilton
(i) Jesse m.
Sarah Brougher '
Vida X. ra.
Edward
McCauley
Beulah J. m.
LutherF.Vaughn ■! Joseph Webb
Wm. Russell
G. G. Grandchil-
dren*
r Wilbur Hilton
\ Mary B.
(^ Jesse Lamar
Frank D., d. s.
Pearle
r Sarah Agnes
I Eugene Morris
(2) Ruth m. /
Augustus ) Leila
Vaught '
(3) Mary E., d. s.
(4) Howard, d. s.
(5) Benjamin, s.
(6) Mary m. f Julia m.
Jasper Tripp 1 C. L. Hobart
1^ Frank
Jesse
(7) William m.
Elsie Matthews
No children
Levon B.
Roy H.
■ Winifred E.
Arthur, d.
Nelle
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199
4. David m.
Cynthia Wat-
son
f (I) Wm. Allan, d.s.
(2) Saphronia, d. s.
(3) Mary A. m.
Samuel Cobb
(4) Oscar, d. s.
(5) Geo. F. m.
Adaline
Nichols
(6) Edwin m.
Mary K. Bram- -{
well
L (7) William, d. s.
f Cynthia m.
E. D. Porter
Geo. O. m.
Minnie Beaker
Pearl, d.
John M. m.
Minnie Cotton
Samuel H. m.
l^ Edith Fedder
Edwin m.
Lotta Hunter
David C. m.
Emma Frieders
dorf
Edward
Charles
[^ Marion
[ Lulu, d.
-; Hazel
l^ Geo. O., Jr.
5 John
Malcomb
Raymond
Harold
I Samuel H., Jr.
[ Baby
Sarah Adaline
■I
Nannie E. m.
Edward T. Wood
Katherine E.
Edwin
Mary Cynisea
Virginia Branham
Wm. Hickman
m. ist
Melinda Wat-
son
' (i) Helen Louisa,
d.s.
(2) Nannie, d. s.
- (3) William, d. s.
(4) Emmam. ( Harry, d. s.
James R. Ryan f Robert, d. s.
(i) William, d. s.
(2) Ida m. ( ^. . ., ,
Tia J c nr ,t ] No children
Ufford S. Wolf I
2d
(3) Leila m.
W. E. Telford
No children
(4) Charles H. m. I ,.. , .
T , -, J Hickman, d.
Ida Newsome 1 ^. , »r
Charles N.
•2d , ^
LiviaJaneStow (5) David McClure C
m. ■{ No children
Nettie Springer ^
r Mary Ufford
(6) Edward F. m. ^^j^^ Lee
Daisy Lee | ^^^^^
(7) Lynn C. m.
Jessie Ryker | Elizabeth
(8) Minnie, d. s.
200
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Elizabeth m.
Geo. W. Bran-
ham
(i) Lucretia A. m.
Newton W.
Vawter
(2) Henry Clay ra.
Caroline Bate-
(3) John Clark m.
Kate Bromley
(4) David Hick-
man, d. s.
(5) William Cum-
mings m.
Mary E. Gil-
bert
No children
Ardys, d. s.
Mary
Hal Howard
Harrye Boynton
John Warner
Bromley E. m. ,
Elenor Wilton \ Donald
Edith Kate m.
John M. Covert | John Stanley
Jessie, d. s.
Ruby Alice m.
Gordon B.
Atwood
C Gilbert C.
Elizabeth H. m.
John H. Wagner
David C. m.
Vera Miller
] Mary Elizabeth
7. McClure m.
ist
Louisa J.
Hutchins
2d
Mrs. Frances
Watson
(i) Mary Ellen m. ,
ist Albert W. \ No children
Moore
^^ \ No children
Frank Costigan '
(2) Wm. Jennings {
m. Kate Owens
Ernest
(3) Juliette m.
^
f Marian
! Kate m.
r
8. Mary Louisa, m.
Edward J. Rob-
inson
r Mary
-; Florence
[ William
Thos. Calloway j Joe Curtis Dixon
, , c iu I Myrtle Helen
(i) Samantha, s.
(2) Albert, s.
(3 & 4) d. in in-
fancy
(5) Fred m.
Cora
(6) Lolla, s.
(i) Anna Cornelia
m. Hamilton
Stapp
(2) Mary Rebecca,
d.s.
(3) Wm. Hickman,
d.s.
(4) Julia Elizabeth
m. Archer H. 5 Helen Mary
Crane ^
(5) Mary Louisa,
d. s.
(6) Edward Lins-
field, d. s.
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20 1
8. Mary Robinson
{Continued)
(7) Carrie Bran- (" Margaret Robinson
ham m, Geo. S.^ Helen
Long
1
i^ Ceo. S.
(8) Emma Nettie
/ \ Air J i^j J f Mary .Anna
(9) Alfred Edward -c- , • , ^ , ,
-1 Freoerick Edward
[ Anna Julia
9. Nancy m.
Solon C. Bram-
well
(10) Walter Scott
d. s.
(1) Edgar m.
Adelia Fran-
cisco
(2) MaryKath-
erine m.
Edwin Bran-
ham
' Geo. F. m
Mary Reilly
William S. m.
Lillian Farns-
worth
I
Harry L. m.
Lillie Robinson
f David C. m.
Emma Frieders-
dorf
I Nannie E. m.
L Edward T.Wood
Edna
Louise
Annasdale
Bessie
\ Dorothy
Katherine E.
Edwin
Mary Cynisea
Virginia Branham
10. Joseph Warren r
m. Friscilla J ^^'^ "'■ i
j Van Trees ^
O'Laughley
Two children
I
V
MARY (VAWTER) BRANHAM
Mary Vawter, daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth Vawter, was
born in Virginia, May 17, 1787; married June 11, 1807, to Lins-
field Branham; died May 12, 1846.
Linsfield Branham w^as born March 21, 1784; died September
10, 1825. He was among the first settlers of Madison, Jefferson
county, Indiana. He was active in getting up a petition for a
road and was appointed overseer with instructions to collect and
keep up roads as early as February, 181 1. He was also appointed
one of the appraisers of real and personal property. In the year
1 81 8 he bought of Stapp and Branham his home near North
Madison.
Linsfield and Mary (Vawter) Branham had ten children:
Granville, Julia Ann, Benjamin, David Cummings, William Hick-
man, Elizabeth, McClure, Mary Louisa, Nancy and Joseph
Warren.
202 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Granville Branham
Granville, son of Linsfield and Mary (Vawter) Branham, was
born June lo, 1808; died unmarried.
Julia (Branham) Webb
Julia Ann Branham, daughter of Linsfield and Mary (Vawter)
Branham, was born July 2, 1809; married March 21, 1830, to
Henry Webb, who was born in New Jersey in 1792, and died
November 2, 1868. He was a merchant.
Julia (Branham) Webb died September 11, 1882, in Elizabeth-
town, Indiana.
Children :
(i) Jesse, son of Henry and Julia (Branham) Webb, was
born in North Madison, Indiana, January 9, 1831 ; married in
Franklin. Indiana, September 11, 1855. to Sarah Brougher, who
was born in Brewersville, Indiana, June 12, 1828. Jesse Webb
was a carpenter. He died November 2, 1862.
Children :
a. Ida M. Webb, born in Memphis, Tennessee, September 2,
1856; died June 25, 1858.
b. Edwin P. Webb, born in Brewersville, Indiana, April 15,
1858; married October 25, 1887, to Mary Etta Hilton. Children :
Wilbur Hilton, born January 16, 1889; Mary B., born December
22, 1 89 1, and Jesse Lamar, born June 27, 1893. Ewin P. Webb
lives in Marshall, Texas.
c. Vida X. Webb, born in North Madison, Indiana, March 9,
i860; married June 27, 1878, to Edward J. McCauley. Children :
Frank D., born May 17, 1879; drowned June 20, 1891 ; Pearle,
born October 10, 1881. Vida X. Webb is in the Insane Hospital
at Indianapolis, Indiana.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 203
d. Beulah J. Webb was born in North Madison, Indiana,
March 28, 1862; married to Luther Felix Vaughn October 31,
1894. Children: Sarah Agnes, born October 30, 1895; Eugene
Morris, born January 10, 1897; Joseph Webb, born August 28,
1899; WilHam Russell, born April 7, 1901, and Jesse, born Feb-
ruary 10, 1903.
(2) Ruth, daughter of Henry and Julia (Branham) Webb,
was born in Madison, Indiana, October 3, 1834; married March
II, 1869, to Augustus Vaught, who was born February 14, 1821,
in Kentucky. One child, Leila Vaught, was born at Elizabeth-
town, Indiana, November 2, 1870.
Augustus Vaught is an undertaker and furniture dealer, living
at Martinsville, Indiana.
(3) Mary E. Webb, daughter of Henry and Julia (Branham)
Webb, was born in 1837, and died in 1840.
(4) Howard Webb, son of Henry and Julia (Branham)
Webb, was born in 1839, and died in 1840.
(5) Benjamin Webb, son of Henry and Julia (Branham)
Webb, was born March 17, 1841. Lives at the Soldiers' Home.
Unmarried.
(6) Mary Webb, daughter of Henry and Julia (Branham)
Webb, was born in Madison, Indiana, June 17, 1847; married
in Madison, Indiana, October 29, 1868, to Jasper Tripp, who was
born in Patriot, Indiana, April 19, 1839, ^"^ died May 19, 1895.
Jasper Tripp was United States ganger.
Children :
a. Julia S. Tripp, daughter of Jasper and Mary (Webb)
Tripp, was born October i, 1869; married August 25, 1902, to
C. L. Hobart, who is a printer. No children. They live in To-
peka, Kansas.
h. Frank C. Tripp, son of Jasper and Mary (Webb) Tripp,
was born October 9, 1874. Is a bookkeeper, living in Topeka,
Kansas.
(7) William Webb, the son of Henry and Julia (Branham)
Webb, was born at North Madison, Indiana, October 3, 1849;
married at Martinsville, Indiana, December 19, 1873, to Elsie
Matthews, who was born near Vernon, Indiana, August 7, 1851.
204 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Children :
a. Levon B. Webb, born September y, 1874.
b. Roy H. Webb, born March 5, 1877.
c. Winifred E. Webb, born June 6, 1879.
d. Arthur Webb, born September 18, 1882; died February i,
1900.
c. Nelle Webb, born May 21, 1887.
Wilham Webb owns a bakery at Martinsville, Indiana. His
children are all living at home except Roy, who lives in Indianap-
olis, Indiana.
3
Benjamin Branham
Benjamin, son of Linsfield and Mary (Vawter) Branham, was
born December 3, 1810; married February 28, 1834, to Letitia
Kidd; died at Rodney, Mississippi, April 9, 1842.
4
David Branham
David Branham, son of Linsfield and Mary Branham, was born
August 29, 1812; married October 17, 1833, to Cynthia A, Wat-
son; died in 1877.
Cynthia (Watson) Branham was born at Mt. Sterling, Ken-
tucky, in 1820; died 1903.
In an article published after the death of David Branham, oc-
curred this paragraph :
"David Branham was for more than fifty years identified,
either directly or indirectly, with all that was of public interest in
Jefferson county, Indiana. He was a member of the legislature
for a quarter of a century, and during this entire period there was
no act of his that was not dictated by sentiments of highest in-
tegrity and purest patriotism. While he was a man of positive
views and strong convictions, firmly devoted to his political sen-
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 205
timents and party, his strong sense of justice held them in such
just equihbrium as to command for him the confidence and re-
spect, not only of the leaders, but of the people of all parties."
Governor Morton wrote a letter to his private secretary, W. H.
H. Terrell, just after he had started to Europe, and in it said :
"I am personally thankful for the able and efficient support David
Branham has given me through my whole administration and the
service he has rendered the state. It was Branham who gave the
backbone to the movement in the legislature of 1863 which re-
sulted in the defeat of all their revolutionary schemes and saved
the state from the horrors of civil war. I have always intended
to declare this to the world in some form and still do, if I am
spared to return. It was the high stand he took and the bulldog
resolution with which he hung on to it that brought the others
round to the policy that would save the state (that was the break-
ing up of the legislature). His services have never been recog-
nized by the government or the people as they should have been.
I have always intended to do him justice. Say to him that I
cherish kind, grateful recollections of his personal and political
services."
Mrs. Mary Cobb, a daughter of David Branham, says : "This
letter was dated November 19, 1865. W. H. H. Terrell was a
nephew of my mother. I distinctly remember my father bringing
the members who 'bolted' with him to our house at Madison. He
was superintendent of the Madison Railroad, and brought them
in his private car."
Children of David and Cynthia (Watson) Branham were
William Allan, Sophronia, Mary A., Oscar, Edwin and William.
(i) William Allan Branham was born in 1834; died in 1847.
(2) Sophronia Branham was born in North Madison, In-
diana, in 1837; died in 1887. Unmarried.
(3) Mary A. Branham, daughter of David and Cynthia
(Watson) Branham, was born at North Madison. Indiana, in
1839; married in i860 to Samuel Cobb, who was born in Paris,
Indiana, in 1836, and died in 1899.
Children :
a. Cynthia Cobb, born in Madison. Indiana, in i860; married
206 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
in Indianapolis in 1882, to Dr. E. D. Porter. Lives in Indianapo-
lis. Children: Edward, born in 1887; Charles, born in 1890, and
Marion, born in 1893.
b. George O. Cobb, born in Madison, Indiana, in 1862; mar-
ried in 1884 to Minnie Beeker, who was born in 1867. George
O. Cobb is an ice manufacturer, living in Matoon, Illinois.
Children: Lulu, born in 1884; died in 1899; Hazel, born in
1886, and George O., Jr., born in 1888.
c. Pearl Cobb, born in 1870; died in 187 1.
d. John M. Cobb, born in Spencer, Indiana, in 1868; married
in 1 89 1 to Minnie Cotton, who was born in Indianapolis in 1869.
One child, John Malcomb, was born in Indianapolis in 1892.
John M. Cobb is district sales agent for the National Cash
Register Company. Lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
e. Samuel H. Cobb was born in 1874; married in 1894 to
Edith Fedder, who was born in Bloomington, Indiana. Their
children are Raymond, born in 1895; Harold, born in 1898;
Samuel H., Jr., born in 1900, and a baby, born in 1903.
Samuel H. Cobb is assistant manager and bookkeeper Amer-
ican Press Association. Lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.
(4) Oscar, son of David and Cynthia (Watson) Branham,
was born in 1842, and died in the army in 1862.
(5) George F. Branham, son of David and Cynthia (Wat-
son) Branham, was born February 26, 1844; married April 9,
1869, to Adaline Nichols, who was born September 12, 1846.
George F. Branham died in Indianapolis, May 9, 1896.
Children :
a. Edwin Branham, born September 28, 1871 ; married De-
cember 12, 1894, to Lotta Hunter, who was born December 13,
1874. They have one child, Sarah Adaline. They live in In-
dianapolis.
(6) Edwin Branham, son of David and Cynthia (Watson)
Branham, was born January, 1846; married to his cousin, Mary
Katherine Bramwell, who was born May 29, 1844. Edwin Bran-
ham lived only a few years after the war. He was a prisoner in
Andersonville until Sherman's "March to the Sea." He never
recovered from his terrible experience in prison.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 20/
Children of Edwin and Mary (Bramwell) Branham were
David and Nannie.
a. David C. Branham, son of Edwin and Mary B. Branham,
was born July 30, 1867 ; married August 9, 1896, to Emma Frie-
dersdorf. Lives in Cairo, Illinois. Children: Katherine E., born
October 17, 1897, and Edwin, born January 27, 1903.
b. Nannie E. Branham, daughter of Edwin and Mary B.
Branham, was born February 9, 1870; married June 19, 1897,
to Edward Thurston Wood, who was born December 25, 1855.
Children : Mary Cynisea, born June 26, 1898, and Virginia Bran-
ham, born March 19, 1902. They live at 6023 Vernon avenue,
Chicago, Illinois.
(7) William Branham, son of David and Cynthia (Watson)
Branham, was born in 1848; died in 1868.
5
William Hickman Branham
William Hickman Branham, son of Linsfield and Mary (Vaw-
ter) Branham, was born March 28, 1814; married January 19,
1835, to Melinda Watson, who was born October 11, 1819, and
died August 16, 1846.
William Hickman Branham was, with his brother, David C.
Branham, in the making and selling of lumber until the railroad
was built, when he worked for the state. The old Indianapolis
and Madison Railroad belonged to the state. David C. Branham
was superintendent for a number of years on the Indianapolis and
Madison Road, at that time called the Madison and Indianapolis
Road. After the road fell into the hands of a company Hickman
Branham was engaged in buying and selling grain for a while,
and then went back to the railroad. He was also engaged for
several years in operating a hotel which he and his brother David
had built. William Hickman Branham died February 4, 1867.
Children of William Hickman and Melinda (Watson) Bran-
ham :
( I ) Helen Louisa, died in infancy.
208 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
(2) Nannie, died in infancy.
(3) William, died in infancy.
(4) Emma Branham, born in 1841 ; married in 1861 to James
R. Ryan, who was born in 1833. He was engaged in the whole-
sale commission business in Indianapolis. Their children : Harry,
born in 1862 ; died in 1898, unmarried, and Robert, born in 1872 ;
died in 1901.
Mr. and Mrs. Ryan live at 522 North New Jersey street, In-
dianapolis.
William Hickman Branham was married, second, to Livia Jane
Stow March 28, 1850. Livia (Stow) Branham was born Decem-
ber 13, 1827; died October 24, 1903.
Children of William H. and Livia (Stow) Branham:
(i) William Branham, son of William H. and Livia (Stow)
Branham, born June 20, 185 1 ; died May 28, 1852.
(2) Ida Branham, daughter of William H. and Livia (Stow)
Branham, born March 5, 1853; married November 21, 1872, to
Ufford S. Wolf. Ufford S. Wolf was a farmer, then was in com-
mission business with J. R. Ryan in Indianapolis. Is now retired
from business. No children.
(3) Leila Branham, daughter of William H. and Livia
(Stow) Branham, was born March 15, 1855; married January
I, 1879, to W. E. Telford, who has since died. No children.
Mrs. Telford is a school teacher and also teaches music. Lives
at North Madison, Indiana.
(4) Charles H. Branham, son of William H. and Livia
(Stow) Branham, was born September 23, 1857; married June
28, 1888, to Ida Newsome.
Charles H. Branham is employed by the Pennsylvania Lines as
yardmaster and foreman of the shops at North Madison, Indiana.
Children: Minnie, born November 22, 1889; Hickman, born
January 30, 1897, died March 7, 1899; Charles N., born January
24, 1899.'
(5) David McClure Branham, son of William H. and Livia
(Stow) Branham, was born January 5, i860; married May 10,
1883, to Nettie A. Springer. No children. David Branham is a
dealer in general merchandise, living in Elizabethtown, Indiana.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 209
(6) Edward F. Branham, son of William H. and Livia
(Stow) Branham. was born January 8, 1862; married November
7, 1895, to Daisy Lee, who was born September 27, 1867. Ed-
ward Branham is a traveling- salesman for the American Agricul-
tural Chemical Company. Lives at North Madison, Indiana.
Children :
a. Mary Ufford, born November 8, 1896; died July i. 1903.
b. Helen Lee, born August 7, 1899.
c. Baby, born June 23, 1904.
(7) Lynn C. Branham, son of William H. and Livia (Stow)
Branham, was born May 17, 1864; married June 25, 1895, to
Jessie Ryker. One child, Elizabeth, born June 28, 1897.
Lynn C. Branham is employed by the Cleveland, Columbus,
Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway Company as locomotive fireman.
Lives at Bright wood, Indiana.
(8) Minnie Branham, daughter of William H. and Livia
(Stow) Branham, was born December 6, 1866; died December
4, 1884.
Elizabeth Branham
Elizabeth, daughter of Linsfield and Mary (Vawter) Bran-
ham, was born May 2, 1816; married May 22, 1832, to George
W. Branham, son of John and Frances (Vawter) Branham; died
May 14, 1846.
For an account of George W. Branham and the children of
Elizabeth, see the record of George W. Branham in chapter con-
taining family of Frances (Vawter) Branham.
7
McClure Branham
McClure, son of Linsfield and Mary (Vawter) Branham, was
born December 4, 181 7, at North Madison, Indiana; married
210 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
February, 1839, to Louisa J. Hutchins; died April 20, 1869.
Louisa J. Hutchins was born at Vernon, Indiana, November 4,
1823; died at Elizabethtown, January 20, 1845.
Children :
(i) Mary Ellen, daughter of McClure and Louisa (Hutch-
ins) Branham, was born December 19, 1840; married Albert W.
Moore of Logansport, Indiana, who was born in Sandy Hill,
New York, June 6, 1828; died at Indianapolis, March 13, 1876.
Mary E. Moore married, second, Frank Costigan, who was born
at Madison, Indiana, April 4, 1838. Frank Costigan is traveling
agent for Canton, Ohio, Bridge Company. No children. Live at
36 Hubbard Block, Indianapolis.
(2) William Jennings Branham, son of McClure and Louisa
(Hutchins) Branham, was born in Elizabethtown, Indiana, June
15, 1842; married May, 1867, to Kate Owens at North Madison,
Indiana. They have one child, Ernest, who was born October,
1868, and who is employed by L. S. Ayres & Co. of Indianapolis.
Jennings Branham and family live at 31 South Arsenal avenue,
Indianapolis.
(3) Juliette Branham, daughter of McClure and Louisa
(Hutchins) Branham, was born December 15, 1843; married
Thomas Calloway.
Children :
a. Marian, born April 16, 1870.
b. Kate, born December 11, 1874; married May 16, 1898, to
Joe Curtis Dixon, who was born July 20, 1874. Live in In-
dianapolis.
c. Myrtle Helen, born in 1879.
Mr. and Mrs. Calloway live at Springfield, Missouri.
McClure Branham married, second, Mrs. Frances Mefford
Watson at Madison, Indiana, July 5, 1846. Mrs. Branham lives
at Columbus, Indiana.
Children :
(i) Samantha Branham, born in North Madison, Indiana,
May 17, 1847. Unmarried.
(2) Albert, born May 19, 1853. Unmarried.
(3 and 4) Two, who died in infancy.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 211
(5) Fred, born in North Madison. Indiana. May 20. 1856;
married Cora . Lives in Columbus, Indiana.
(6) Lolla. born in North Madison, Indiana. March 17, i860.
McClure Branham was engaged in the railroad business, and
lived at North Madison, Indiana, the greater part of his life.
8
Mary (Branham) Robinson
Mary Louisa, daughter of Linsfield and Mary (Vavvter) Bran-
ham, was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, October 18, 1819;
married to Edward Jones Robinson April 9, 1840; died at Bed-
ford, Indiana, January 24, 1892.
Edward J. Robinson was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Jan-
uary 4, 1 81 7. He moved with his father's family to Steuben ville,
Ohio, when a boy. He went to Mobile. Alabama, when a young
man, and from there to Madison, Indiana, where he was married.
He and his wife moved from Madison to Greensburg, Indiana,
where the first child. Anna Cornelia, was born. Returning to
Madison, Edward Robinson engaged in the mercantile and rail-
road business until the Civil War broke out. He enlisted in the
Fifty- Fourth Indiana ; was adjutant at Camp Morton at In-
dianapolis, and afterward colonel of the One Hundred and
Thirty-Seventh Regiment. After the war he returned to Madi-
son; removed to Indianapolis in 1869, and to Bedford, Indiana,
in 1 88 1. He died at Bedford June 26, 1896.
Children of Edward and Mary (Branham) Robinson:
(i) Anna Cornelia Robinson was born July 25. 1842; mar-
ried Hamilton Stapp. Lives in Yoakune, Texas. Children :
Alary, Florence and William.
(2) Mary Rebecca Robinson was born March 27, 1844; died
April 2, 1844, at Greensburg, Decatur county, Indiana.
(3) William Hickman Robinson was born August 5. 1845;
died in Madison. Indiana, July 5, 1868.
(4) Julia Elizabeth Robinson was born December 17, 1846;
married at Indianapolis, September 25, 1878, to Archer H.
Ui
212 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Crane, who was born in Onondaga, New York, March 31, 1821,,
and died in Hudson, Michigan, June 5, 1892.
Children : Helen Mary Crane, born in Hudson, Michigan,
May 12, 1883.
Mrs. Juha R. Crane lives at Champaign, Illinois.
(5) Mary Louisa Robinson was born February 5, 1849; died
at North Madison, Indiana, July 19, 1850.
(6) Edward Linsfield Robinson, born February 14, 1850;
died at North Madison, Indiana, September 19, 1850.
(7) Carrie Branham Robinson was born September 30,
1854; married at Bedford. Indiana, June 6, 1889, to George S.
Long, who was born at Clermont, Marion county, Indiana, De-
cember 3, 1853. George S. Long is with the Weyerhauser Tim-
ber Co., in Tacoma, Washington.
Children: Margaret Robinson Long, born March 15, 1891,
at Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Helen Long, born October 30, 1893,
at Eau Claire, Wisconsin; George S. Long, Jr., born October 30,
1895, at Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
(8) Emma Nettie Robinson, born June 28, 1856. Lives with
Mrs. Long in Tacoma, Washington.
(9) Alfred Edward Robinson, born November 12, 1859;
married. His family is living in East St. Louis. Children : Mary
Anna, born February 15, 1891 ; Frederick Edward, born Jan-
uary, 1893, and Anna Julia, born January, 1895.
(10) Walter Scott Robinson, born July 8, 1861 ; died at
Madison, Indiana, October 15, 1869.
Nancy (Branham) Bramwell
Nancy, daughter of Linsfield and Mary (Vawter) Branham,.
was born April 9, 1820; married April 9, 1840, to Solon C.
Bramwell; died February 6, 1845.
Solon C. Bramwell was born in 181 5 in Jennings county, In-
diana; died at Kansas City in 1899. He was the first agent of
the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad Company at Madison,.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 213
Indiana. Was engaged in steamboating on the Ohio and Mis-
sissippi rivers for many years. Was successful in business in
Cincinnati for a time, and was prominent in the early years of
Kansas City, where he was well known as an honest man and a
good citizen, and where his second wife now resides.
Children : Edgar and Mary Katherine.
(i) Edgar, son of Solon C. and Nancy Bramwell, was born
at Elizabethtown, Indiana, August 19, 1842; married near Madi-
son, Indiana, September 3, 1865, to Adelia Francisco, daughter
of William Warren Francisco, who was born at Paris, Indiana,
February 28, 1842.
Edgar Bramwell is law agent of the Louisville & Nashville
Railroad Company at Nashville, Tennessee.
Children of Edgar and Adelia (Francisco) Bramwell:
a. George F. Bramwell, born October 20, 1866, at Franklin,
Indiana ; married to Mary Reilly of Nashville, Tennessee, March,
1890. Children: Edna, born in 1898, and Louise, born in 1902.
George F. Bramwell is a machinist in Nashville, Tennessee.
b. William S. Bramwell, son of Edgar and Adelia (Fran-
cisco) Bramwell, was born April 27,, 1868, at Franklin, Indiana;
married to Lillian Farnsworth of Earlington, Kentucky, Decem-
ber, 1889. Children: Annasdale, born in 1894, and Bessie May,
born in 1902.
William S. Bramwell is a conductor on the Louisville & Nash-
ville Railroad. Lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
c. Harry L. Bramwell, son of Edgar and Adelia (Francisco)
Bramwell, was born at Madison, Indiana, April 20, 1878; mar-
ried Lillie Robinson of Earlington, Kentucky, June, 1900. One
child, Dorothy, born in 1902.
Harry L. Bramwell is a conductor for the Louisville & Nash-
ville Railroad. Lives at Nashville, Tennessee.
(2) Mary Katherine, daughter of Solon C. and Nancy Bram-
well, was born May 29, 1844; married to her cousin, Edwin
Branham, the son of David Branham. For the record of this
family see record of Edwin Branham.
214 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
lO
Joseph Warren Branham
Joseph Warren, son of Linsfield and Mary (Vawter) Bran-
ham, was born June 2, 1824; married January 27, 1848, to Pris-
cilla O'Laughley.
Children : Mary, who married a VanTrees, had two children,
and was living in Iowa.
VI.
SARAH VAWTER5
(Jesse*, Davids, John2, Johni)
(1789-1871)
m.
THOS. STRIBLING
(1784-1857)
Children"
Grandchildren'
I. Frances m. J
James Edwards 1
r (I) William T. m.
Zerelda Mal-
comb
2. Elizabeth m.
Nathaniel Fer-
gason
(i) Sallie Ann m.
F.F.Mitchell
(2) Mary B. m.
1st
George Neblett
2d
Stephen Fores-
ter
(3) Nancy S. m.
1st John Clark
2d Thos. Reeves
G. Grandchil-
dren"
Flavius m.
Mollie B. Dick-
son
John Malcomb m.
Alice Epps
HettieJ.
Mattie Robinson
m.
M. J. Bowman
Uriah Calvin, d.
Wra. Thomas, d.
Lucy A. E. m.
T. L. Jackson
Nannie Cornelia
m.
J. M. C. Young
J. M.m.
ist
Bettie Oliver
2d
Mattie Mabry
Jennie m.
Eugene S.Tatom
Esrom Bold
George Monroe
Alen Fowler
John Ann m.
W. W. Mays.d.
G. G. Grandchil-
dren*
f Mary Zerelda
Edgar Flavius
Gus Malcomb
1
f William Thomas
■j Frank
L Charles
Milo
' Myrtle, d.
Chatie Luciel
Eva, d.
Mary Lee, d.
Edna
Mary, d.
Nannie Lillian
Cecilia
Kate Eugene
Barteels
2l6
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
3. Pleasant m.
Zerelda Emer-
ine Dahoney
(i) Emerine rn.
Allen T. Cor-
bitt
(2);jesse Vawter
m.
Susan Yar-
brough
Wyley Welch
Weldon Plant
Flora Elton
Jessie Allen 2
Nancy's
Sadie Pauline
Curte C.
Nellie
Samuel, d.
Ford G.
Gladys, d.
Bessie Rewbine
Jesse Vawter m.
Ada Plant
Nellie m.
A. C. Stitt
Reuben E. m.
Bessie Plant
Eddie Smith, d.
Annie Mary, d.
Alvin Hawkins,
unm.
Pleasant Stribling
m.
Rena McCreary
Emma Nannie m.
W. A. Duncan
Hessie, d.
Wm. Morehead m. ( Harry Leo
Emma Stephens ) Thos. Tibbett
Lutie Lavele m. f
Joseph F. Ander- -{ Ora
SOD 1^
Emma
Lydia Zerelda
m.
Wm. H. McCauley
John Malcomb m.
Mrs. Sallie Box
I Mary L.
1 Marje
( Frederi
/ John
ck Slaton
r
Mattie Lillian
•°- i H
Geo. W. Waggoner (^
Sallie Ann
Jesse Aline
arold Coke
(3) Almeda m.
John Malcomb
Infant, d.
^ Ethel
Myrtle
John L.
Lulu m.
Henry E
H. E. Warren
Max H.
David L.
Guy M.
Ella
Ella m.
R. E. Fowlkes
John Levin
Ronald
m.
Mattie Estelle
Plant
Edith
Mary
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217
(3) Almeda Mal-
comb
iCo7iiinued)
(4) Mary, d.
Pleasant
{Continued)
(6) Sarah m.
Virgil A. Bar-
nett
(7) Annie Russell,
d.
Charles More-
head m.
Susan Jackson
Howard Ford m.
Flora Elton
I Gertrude
-] Robert F.
L Dixie
Samuel Guy m. / ""bert A.
EthelA.Fowlkes ! J°hn Lilbern
L HattieC.
Mattie Robinson f
m.
Bessie
Wm. Walter White i Robert Malcomb
<
< Josie Lytell m.
W. T. Anderson
(5) Lydia Hester
m.
John O. San-
ford
Guy
Lillian Hester
Hugh Leiper
Gertrude
Bertie Clair
Aliene
William S.
Paul Chester
EffieS. m. r , , .,
J Judson M.
,.,,„, I Sadie Hester
Junius M. Palmer t
2d
J. M.C.Young
Gussie, d.
Nannie M. m.
Geo. L. Harrison
j Karl
1 Mai
Bertie E. m.
Charles F. Neg-
)ey
Charles Vawter
Jessie Eldon, m.
Edgar Taylor
. Junius Palmer
Stella A. m / ^^'P^ Barnett, d.
Charles G. Plant 1 ^^x Malcomb
L Kathleen
AllieMaym. f Alma
G. C. Morrisett \ Virgil, d.
L Gladys Marguerite
Charles Byron m.
Mary E. Thomp-
son
KateG. m.
W. Stirling Jack-
son
[ Walter Jackson
f
Ernest Gilderoy
2l8
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
4. Wm. L. m.
Sarah Taulman
{'•■
io children
5. Ann m.
Josiah Chaille
William H
Grace
Mollie m.
Odia
R. M. Corbitt
Bessie
Bates
L Desmukes
(i) Sarah Jane m.
Matthew A. m. '
Gertrude
Henry Miller
Nora Brown
Elphia
Clayborn
Sarah
^ Jesse
Elese
Murvel
r Edgar
(2) Elizabeth m. | Alonzo
Dr. A.W.Dick- -> AUie
son son
I daughter
M. A.,d.
Elmore J.
W. W.
J. H. m.
Susan Tate
(3) Newton T. m.
L. J. Dickson
(4) John E., d.
(5) Wm. Hickman
m.
Carrie Christ-
man
(6) Joanna m.
1st
James Curtis
2d
Wm. B. War-
ren
D. D. m.
F. A. Posey
Maud m.
Robert Owen
Zulah m.
Robert L. Har-
per
Josiah F. m.
Minnie V. Hall
William H., d.
J. Howard, d.
Floyd
Loyd
Lillian, d.
Mary Addie, d.
John Edward m.
Nannie Byrne
Paul Frederick
m.
Myrtle Robinson
Newton Homer
Chris Duncan
Annie Gertrude
Wyly Brown
Vivian
Elmer V.
Tibit
Louise
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
2iy
6. Newton W. m.
Elizabeth
Taulman
(i) Margaret m.
J. M. Gray
{^
harles P.
7. Amanda m.
John Rossen
8. Milton S. ID.
Nancy Mon-
crief
9. Silas m.
Sarah A. Keith
(i) John m.
(2) Josephine m.
Childers
No children
No children
10. Uriah m. (
Hester A. Cobb \ ^° children
(i) Uriah m.
Ella M. Lam-
bertson
II. Sarah m.
James Chaille
J2. Infant, d.
13- Artemecia m.
Michael Wolf
(2) Thos. D., d.
(3) Jesse V. m.
Alice Neal
(4) Josiah M., d.
(5) William T., d.
(6) John Cm.
Mollie F. Ab-
sher
(7) Sarah Jane m.
James Morgan
(i) Elizabeth m.
Milton
Wooden
(2) Sarah Frances,
d.
(3) Nancy Hester,
d.
(4) Thos. Elmer
m.
Lilly M. Harsh
(5) Walter M. m.
Minnie Corner
Emerson Wayland
May Corinne, d.
Harold L.
Grace
Ernest
Jessie Katrine
Raymond
. Ruth Jane
Oren
Freda
Minnie O.
Perry M.
Fannie B.
Wm.D.
Arthur E.
Walter B.
Harry E.
Martha E.
220 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
VI
SARAH (VAWTER) STRIBLING
Sarah Vawter, daughter of Jesse and EHzabeth (Watts) Vaw-
ter. was born June i, 1789; married December i, 1806, to
Thomas T. Stribhng, the son of Benjamin and Ann (Tibbetts)
Stribhng, and died July 29, 1871.
The StribHngs went from Virginia to Kentucky, and then to
Madison, Indiana, in 1809. Thomas Stribhng went to Indiana
in 181 1. He had a farm of about two hundred acres near Press-
burg, Indiana. He was a mechanic as weh as a farmer, and put
up the first steam mill in Indiana. This was near Pressburg,
which is a mile out of North Madison. Thomas Stribhng bought
a large body of land (4,500 acres) on Duck river, Humphreys
county, Tennessee, and gave to a number of his children good
farms there. In November, 1853, Thomas Stribhng and several
of his children — Pleasant, Uriah, Silas, Betty Furgason and hus-
band, Ann Chaille, a widow, and Artemecia Wolf and her hus-
band — went to Tennessee. Silas and Uriah remained there about
eight or ten years and then returned to Indiana. Artemecia Wolf
and her husband did not stay long. At the time the Stribling
family went to Tennessee, land sold from three dollars to five
dollars per acre. The same land now sells from fifty dollars to
one hundred dollars per acre. The hills there contain iron and
vast quantities of hematite. Thomas Stribling was born Decem-
ber 4, 1784, and died March 21, 1857, at his home at Honey
Point, five miles from the mouth of Duck river, Tennessee.
Thomas and Sarah (Vawter) Stribling had thirteen children:
Frances, Elizabeth, Pleasant, William L., Ann, Newton W.,
Amanda, Milton S., Silas S., Uriah B., Sarah, an infant son who
died, and Artemecia.
I
Frances (Stribling) Edwards
Frances, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Stribling, was born
November 16, 1807; married February 13, 1827, to James Ed-
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 221
wards. Frances died August 26, 1828. James and Frances
(Stribling) Edwards, had one child, WilHam T.
( I ) WilHam T. Edwards, son of James and Frances ( Strib-
ling) Edwards, was born December 27, 1827; married August
2, 1849, to Zerelda Malcomb, who was born November 25, 1829,
and died January 13, 1874. William T. Edwards died June 6,
1886.
The children of William T. and Zerelda (Malcomb) Edwards
were Flavins J., John Malcomb, Hettie J. and Mattie Robinson.
a. Flavins J. Edwards was born at North Madison, Indiana,
August 28, 1856; married March 19, 1879, to Mollie B. Dickson.
Their children are Mary Zerelda, born May 31, 1881 ; Edgar
Flavins, born October 3, 1885, and Gus Malcomb, born Septem-
ber 2, 1897. Flavins Edwards and family live at Newbern, Dyer
county, Tennessee.
b. John Malcomb Edwards, son of William T. and Zerelda
(Malcomb) Edwards, was born at North Madison, Indiana, Jan-
uary 27, i860; married Alice Epps. Has three children: Wil-
liam Thomas, Frank and Charles. Lives at Obion, Obion county,
Tennessee.
c. Hettie J. Edwards, daughter of William T. and Zerelda
(Malcomb) Edwards, was born July 8, 1864, and is now living
at Madison, Indiana.
d. Mattie Robison Edwards, daughter of William T. and
Zerelda (Malcomb) Edwards, was born at North Madison, In-
diana, December 26, 1870; married Prof. M. J. Bowman and has
one child, Milo. Lives at Indianapolis, Indiana.
Both Hetty and Mattie Edwards lived for many years after
the death of their mother with their uncle, Uriah Stribling, in
Madison, Indiana.
Elizabeth (Stribling) Fergason
Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Vawter) Stribling,
was born August 22, 1809; married at North Madison, Indiana,
October 4, 1837, to Nathaniel Fergason, the son of William and
2.2,2, THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Hannah Fergason. Nathaniel Fergason was born February ii,
1816, in Decatur county, Indiana. Was a farmer.
Elizabeth (Stribling) Fergason died February 15, 1885.
The children of Nathaniel and Elizabeth ( Stribling) Fergason
were Sallie Ann, Mary and Nancy.
(i) Sallie Ann Fergason, daughter of Nathaniel and Eliza-
beth (Stribling) Fergason, was born November 26, 1839; mar-
ried to F. F. Mitchell in 1855, who was born in 1833. Their
children were Uriah Calvin, born December 30, 1859; died June
30, 1880, and William Thomas, born September 13, 1861 ; died
September 9, 1863.
(2) Mary B. Fergason, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth
(Stribling) Fergason, was born May 8, 1843; married in 1859
to George Neblett, who was born in 1837. Their children were:
a. Lucy A. E., daughter of George and Mary (Fergason)
Neblett, was born February i, 1863; married to T. L. Jackson,
who was born September 24, 1852. No children. They live in
Johnsonville, Tennessee.
h. Nannie Cornelia, daughter of George and Mary (Ferga-
son) Neblett, was born February 3, 1865; married to J. M. C.
Young, January 11, 1882. J. M. C. Young was born December
25, 1856. Their children: Myrtle B., born January 9, 1883;
died September 13, 1902; Chatie Luciel, born January 2, 1887;
Eva, born July 12, 1889; died September 26, 1889; Mary Lee,
born October 22, 1891, died April 29, 1892.
Nannie (Neblett) Young died April 22, 1892.
Chatie Young lives at Plant, Tennessee.
c. J. M. Neblett, son of George and Mary (Fergason) Neb-
lett, was born June 12, 1864; married December 21, 1890, to
Bettie Oliver. One child, Edna, was born in 1892.
Bettie (Oliver) Neblett died January 15, 1893.
J. M. Neblett was married to Mattie Mabry March 31, 1897.
They live in Union City, Tennessee. Their children : Mary,
born in 1898, died June 22, 1904, and Nannie Lillian, born in
1 901.
d. Jennie Neblett, daughter of George and Mary (Ferga-
son) Neblett, was born in 1869; married May 19, 1889, to
THE VAVVTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 223
Eugene S. Tatom, who was born in 1865. Their children are
CeceHa, born in 1890; Kate Eugene, born in 1891, and Barteels,
born in 1896. They live in Shawnee, Oklahoma Territory.
(2) Mary (Fergason) Neblett was married the second time
to Stephen Forester in January, 1882. Their children were:
a. Esrom Boid Forester, born October 26, 1882. Lives in
Union City, Tennessee.
b. George Monroe Forester, born April 20, 1884. Lives in
Polk, Tennessee.
c. Alen Fowler Forester, born March 22, 1886. Lives in
Union City, Tennessee.
Mary F. (Neblett) Forester died July 30, 1896.
(3) Nancy S. Fergason, daughter of Nathaniel and Eliza-
beth (Stribling) Fergason, was born May 11, 1845, i^ Jefferson
county, Indiana; married October 17, 1866, to Thomas B.
Reeves, who was born near Paint Rock, Tennessee, March 4,
1846, and died March 23, 1905, in Newbern, Tennessee. Mrs.
Reeves had a daughter, John Ann, by her former husband, John
E. Clark, who was born March i, 1865; married W. W. Mays
and died March 14, 1881. Mrs. Reeves lives in Union City, Ten-
nessee.
3
Pleasant Stribling
Pleasant, son of Thomas and Sarah (Vawter) Stribling, was
born May 5, 181 1, near Madison, Indiana, and lived in Ken-
tucky near Frankfort until 1853, when he, with his father and
several brothers and sisters, moved to Tennessee, where he re-
mained. He was married November 2'/, 1834, to Zerelda
Emerine Dehoney, who was born September 16, 181 6. Pleasant
Stribling died August 23, 1885.
The children of Pleasant and Zerelda (Dehoney) Stribling
were Emerine, Jesse, Almeda, Mary, Lydia Hester, Sarah, Annie
Russell and Charles Morehead.
( I ) Emerine was born in Scott county, Kentucky, January
31, 1836; married January 22, i860, to Allen T. Corbitt, who
224 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
was born in Davidson county, Tennessee, in May, 1817, and
died March 7, 1880. He was a farmer.
Children of Allen and Emerine Z. Corbitt :
a. Jesse Vawter Corbitt, born December 10, 1861 ; married
April 15, 1885, to Ada Plant. They have six children: Wyley
Welch, born February 22, 1886; Weldon Plant, born July 29,
1888; Flora Elton, born July 15, 1890; Jessie Allen, born April
4, 1892; Nancy, born May 25, 1894; Sadie Pauline, born March
14, 1896. They live in Big Bottom, Humphreys county, Ten-
nessee.
b. Nellie Corbitt was born November 28, 1863; married to
A. C. Stitt February 16, 1887. Their children: Curte C. Stitt,
born March 16, 1888; Nellie Stitt, born December i, 1893;
Samuel Stitt, born March i, 1895, died October 22, 1895, and
Ford G. Stitt, born February 24, 1896. They live in Box, Ten-
nessee.
c. Ruben E. Corbitt was born October 17, 1865; married
April 5, 1896, to Bessie Gertrude Plant. Their children : Gladys,
born January 24, 1897, died September 22, 1899, and Bessie
Rewbine, born August 31, 1900. They live in Big Bottom,
Humphreys county, Tennessee.
d. Eddie Smith Corbitt was born March 24, 1868, and died
August I, 1872.
c. Annie Mary Corbitt was born March 5, 1870; died July
26, 1871.
/. Alvin Hawkins was born October 22, 1872. Lives in Big
Bottom, Humphreys county, Tennessee.
g. Pleasant Stribling Corbitt was born December 14, 1874;
married to Rena McCreary September 8, 1901. They have one
child, Emma, born January 31, 1903. They live in Big Bottom,
Humphreys county, Tennessee.
h. Emma Nannie Corbitt was born January 15, 1877; mar-
ried to W. A, Duncan December 25, 1901. They live in Big
Bottom, Humphreys county, Tennessee.
i. Hessie Corbitt was born January 23, 1879; died May 7,
1880.
(2) Jesse Vawter Stribling, son of Pleasant and Zerelda
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 225
(Dehoney) Stribling, was born April 8, 1838; married to Susan
Yarbrough November 25, 1863, who was born April 26, 1848,
and died December 26, 1896. Jesse V. Stribling lives in Plant,
Humphreys county, Tennessee.
Children of Jesse V. and Susan Y. Stribling :
a. William Morehead Stribling was born January 18, 1865 ;
married to Emma Stephens, of Waverly, Tennessee, December
20, 1896. They live in Plant, Tennessee. Their children:
Harry Leo, born September 13, 1897, '^"d Thomas Tibbett, born
July 6, 1899.
b. Lutie Lavele Stribling, born May 3, 1867; married Joseph
F. Anderson June 21, 1885. They live at Shaws, Mississippi.
They have one child, Ora, who was born November 4, 1886.
c. Lydia Zerelda Stribling, born January 21, 1870; married
William H. McCauley October 22, 1890. They live at McEwen,
Tennessee. Have two children : Mary L., born February 27,
1892, and Marge, born August 29, 1899.
d. John Malcomb Stribling, born August 2, 1872; married
to Mrs. Sallie Box, July 9, 1898. They live at Waverly, Ten-
nessee. Have two children : Frederick Slaton, born April 23,
1900, and John, born October 27, 1902.
e. Mattie Lillian Stribling, born May 14, 1875; married
George W. Waggoner December 15, 1897. They live at Plant,
Tennessee. Have two children: Jesse Aline, born August 17,
1898, and Harold Coke, born April 22, 1900.
/. Sallie Ann Stribling, born May i, 1878. Lives at Plant,
Tennessee.
g. Infant, died at age of two weeks.
(3) Almeda Stribling, daughter of Pleasant and Zerelda
(Dehoney) Stribling, was born in Scott county, Kentucky, May
8, 1840; married November 25, i860, to John Malcomb. who
was born at Paris, Indiana, October 31, 1834. They live in
Union City, Tennessee. John Malcomb learned the saddler's
trade under Uriah B. Stribling at Paris, Indiana. Afterward
came to Tennessee and engaged in farming. Their children :
a. Lulu Malcomb was born November 30. 1861 ; married
January 28, 1882, to H. E. Warren, who was born at Plant,
226 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Tennessee, November i, 1851. Their children are: Ethel, born
December 21, 1882; Myrtle, born February 14, 1885; John L.,
born April 19. 1886; Henry E., born January 3, 1888; Max H.,
born February 7, 1889; David L., born December 6, 1890; Guy
M., born August 22. 1892, and Ella, born February 12, 1895.
h. Ella Malcomb was born in Plant, Tennessee, March 19,
1864; married to R. E. Fowlkes, December 19, 1883. R. E.
Fowlkes w^as born December 16, 1863. Is cashier of the bank
at Seymour, Texas.
c. John Levin Malcomb, Jr., born November 13, 1867; mar-
ried to Mattie Estelle Plant. Is a farmer living at Plant, Ten-
nessee. The children of John and Mattie ( Plant) Malcomb are :
Ronald, born July 24, 1897; Edith, born April 3, 1900, and
Mary, born October 28, 1902.
d. Howard Ford Malcomb, born March 11, 1870; married
Flora Elton, of Plant, Tennessee, February 11, 1892. Howard
Malcomb is a farmer living at Box, Tennessee. The children of
Howard Ford and Flora (Elton) Malcomb are: Gertrude, born
March 18, 1895; Robert F., born May 11, 1899, and Dixie, born
July 13, 1902.
e. Samuel Guy Malcomb was born December 7, 1871 ; mar-
ried January 26, 1896, to Ethel A. Fowlkes, who was born
October 8, 1879. Samuel G. Malcomb is a farmer, living at
Plant, Humphreys county, Tennessee.
The children of Samuel G. and Ethel ( Fowlkes) Malcomb are :
Hubert A., born July 16, 1898; John Lilbern, born March 13,
1 90 1, and Hattie C, born February 12, 1904.
/. Mattie Robinson Malcomb was born July 21, 1878; mar-
ried December 21, 1898, to William Walter White, who was
born August i, 1873. William Walter White is a farmer, liv-
ing at Union City, Tennessee.
The children of William Walter and Mattie (Malcomb) White
are: Bessie, born September 18, 1899, and Robert Malcomb,
born September 19, 1902.
(4) Mary, daughter of Pleasant and Zerelda (Dehoney)
Stribling, was born October 17, 1842; died November 26, 1882.
Unmarried.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 22/
(5) Lydia Hester, daughter of Pleasant and Zerelda (De-
honey) Stribhng, was born October 6. 1847, near Frankfort,
Kentucky; married October 17, 1865, to John O. Sanford, who
was born at Galena. Illinois, August 23. 1838. John O. Sanford
is in the livery business at Dickson, Tennessee.
Children :
a. Josie Lytell Sanford was born July 15, 1866; married
February 15, 1887, to W. T. Anderson, who is in the wholesale
feed business in Nashville. Tennessee. They have eight children :
Guy, born April i, 1888; Lillian Hester, born June 26, 1890;
Hugh Leiper. born February 29. 1892; Gertrude, born March 12,
1894; Bertie Clair, born February 29, 1896; Allene, born Jan-
uary, 1898; William S., born January 19, 1900, and Paul Chester,
born November 4, 1901.
h. Ellie S. Sanford was born January 8, 1869; married June
20, 1888. to Junius M. Palmer, who was in the mill business, also
dry goods business, and owned a steamboat and a farm near
Johnsonville, Tennessee.
The children of Junius and Ellie (Sanford) Palmer were Jud-
son M.. born March 18, 1889, and Sadie Hester, born July 27,
1891.
Junius Palmer died January 27, 1893.
Ellie (Sanford) Palmer married J. M. C. Young November 2,
1898. He is a stock trader and farmer. They live at Dickson,
Tennessee.
c. Gussie Sanford was born August 11, 1871, and died June
27, 1876.
d. Nannie M. Sanford was born October 15, 1873; married
George L. Harrison in 1895. He is a corn dealer at Box, Ten-
nessee.
e. Bertie Edward Sanford, born August 10, 1876, married
Charles F. Negley, June 25, 1898. Charles F. Negley owns a
barber shop.
The children are Karl, born December 11, 1899, and Mai, born
September 23, 1901.
/. Charles Vawter Sanford, born August 15, 1879. Is in
business with his father at Dickson, Tennessee.
228 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
g. Jessie Eldon San ford, born April 2, 1883; married Edgar
Taylor, November 17, 1902. Edgar Taylor is employed in a
store at Crockett Mills, Tennessee.
h. Junius Palmer Sanford, born December 10, 1886, is in
school at Dickson, Tennessee.
(6) Sarah, daughter of Pleasant and Zerelda (Dehoney)
Stribling, was born October 16, 1849; married July 20, 1873, to
Virgil A. Barnett; died August 5, 1883.
Children :
a. Stella A. Barnett, born March 29, 1874; married to Charles
G. Plant March 18. 1895. Children: Ralph Barnett, born De-
cember 25, 1896, died June 19, 1898; Rex Malcomb, born June
30, 1898; Kathleen, born November i, 1902. Live at Plant,
Tennessee.
b. Allie May Barnett, born February 6, 1876; married No-
vember 23, 1895, to G. C. Morrisett. Children: Alma, born
October 6, 1896; Virgil, born January 26, 1902, died February
14, 1902; Gladys Marguerite, born April 20, 1903. Live at Pol-
lard, Arkansas.
c. Charles Byron Barnett, born June 22, 1878; married
October 8, 1902, to Mary E. Thompson. Lives at Jonesboro,
Arkansas.
d. Kate G. Barnett, born September 15, 1880; married March
3, 1904. to W. Stirling Jackson. Lives at Jonesboro, Arkansas.
e. Walter Jackson Barnett, born September 23, 1882.
Virgil A. Barnett married, second, September 21, 1884,
Mrs. Clella A. Wheat, who was born August 25, 1859, in Scott
county, Indiana.
Virgil A. Barnett was born March 6, 1853, in Coxburg, Ten-
nessee. He is a justice of peace and general collector. Lives at
Jonesboro, Arkansas.
(7) Annie Russell Stribling, daughter of Pleasant and Zer-
elda (Dehoney) Stribling, was born June 19, 1852, and died
April 21, 1856.
(8) Charles Morehead Stribling, son of Pleasant and Zer-
elda (Dehoney) Stribling, was born in Humphreys county, Ten-
nessee, September 7, 1857; married September 2y, 1882, to Susan
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 229
M. Jackson, who was born near Waverly, Tennessee, February
28, 1861. C. M. Stribling is a farmer and is connected with a
telephone company. He and his wife Hve near Plant, Tennessee.
They have one son, Ernest Gilderoy, who is now taking a course
in civil and electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee.
4
William L. Stribling
William Livingston Stribling, son of Thomas and Sarah (Vaw-
ter) Stribling, was born in Jefiferson county, Indiana, March 26,
1813; married Sarah R. Taulman August 4, 1835; died Decem-
ber 8, 1852. No children.
William Stribling started in the milling business and then was
a merchant. His wife is still living near North Madison, Indiana,
being now over ninety years of age. It was from her scrap-book
that much valuable information was obtained for this history.
Ann (Stribling) Chaille
Ann, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Stribling, was born
March 18, 1815; married Josiah Chaille May 8. 1839; died
October 10, 1890. Josiah Chaille died in 1853 ^" Kentucky. He
was a brother to James Chaille, who married Sarah Stribling, the
sister of Ann.
Children of Josiah and Ann Chaille :
(i) Sarah Jane Chaille was born in Kentucky March 16,
1840; married June 27, 1861, to Henry Miller; died April 18,
1895. Henry Miller was born in Humphreys county, Tennessee,
and died in Dickson August 9, 1903, where he was engaged in
the livery business.
Children of Henry and Sarah (Chaille) Miller: Mollie, Mat-
thew A., Elphia, Clayborn, Sarah and Jesse.
a. Mollie Miller was born May 19, 1864; married to R. M.
230 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Corbitt July 16, 1884. Children: William H., Grace, Odia,
Bessie, Bates and Desmukes. Mrs. Corbitt is a widow, living
in Dickson, Tennessee.
b. Matthew A. Miller was born August 16, 1870; married
October 2, 1895, to Nora Brown. Their children: Gertrude,
Elese and Murvel. Matthew Miller is in the livery business in
Dickson, Tennessee.
c. Elphia Miller was born December 17, 1876.
d. Clayborn Miller was born June 11, 1879.
c. Sarah Miller was born in 1884.
/. Jesse Miller was born September 9, 1886.
Elphia. Clayborn, Sarah and Jesse keep house in Dickson,
Tennessee.
(2) Elizabeth Chaille was born October 3, 1842, in Indiana;
married Dr. A. W. Dickson, October 5, 1864. Now living in
Austin, Texas, with her son, A. K. Dickson. Children of A. W.
and Elizabeth Dickson are Edgar, Alonzo. Allie and one son
and one daughter in Texas.
(3) Newton T. Chaille was born near Madison, Indiana,
April 22, 1845; married in Humphreys county, Tennessee,
October, 1865, to L. J. Dickson, who was born in Graves county,
Kentucky, February, 1847. Newton T. Chaille is a retired
farmer, living in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
Children of Newton T. and L. J. Chaille :
a. M. A, Chaille, born September 18, 1866; died August 24,
1868.
b. Elmore J. Chaille, born February 13, 1869.
c. W. W. Chaille, born April 29, 1871.
d. J. H. Chaille, born December 12, 1873; married March
31, 1904, to Susie Tate.
e. D. D. Chaille was born February 17, 1876; married Jan-
uary, 1895, to F. A. Posey. Children: Vivian, born August 29,
1897; Elmer V., born January 5, 1900; Tibit, born February 6,
1903. Mr. and Mrs. Chaille live in Caruthersville, Missouri.
/. Maud Chaille was born July 23, 1878; married to Robert
Owen, March, 1899. Children: Louise, born September 6, 1902.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 23 1
Robert Owen is fireman in the electric-light plant in Jonesboro,
Arkansas.
(4) John E. Chaille was born October 23, 1847. He joined
the union army at the outbreak of the war. He was taken
prisoner, was exchanged, but while on his way home on a fur-
lough he was taken sick and died in a hospital in 1864.
(5) William Hickman Chaille was born in Paris, Kentucky,
February 13, 1850; married to Carrie Kate Christman at Pa-
ducah, Kentucky, April 19, 1871. Carrie Christman was born at
Paducah, Kentucky, November 6, 1853.
William Chaille moved to Texas with his family in 1879, and
resided in Anderson county, Corsicana, Dallas and Abilene until
January, 1895, when he moved to Florida. He and his son
Josiah are now proprietors of "The Racket Store" in Miami,
Florida.
Children of William H. and Carrie (Christman) Chaille:
a. Zulah, born March 2, 1872, in Tennessee; married Robert
L. Harper. Lives in Miami, Florida.
b. Josiah F.. born in Tennessee. August 6. 1874; married
Minnie V. Hall, June 3, 1903. Lives in Miami, Florida.
c. William H., born March 2^, 1876; died April 24, 1877.
in Tennessee.
d. J. Howard, born August 24, 1877, in Tennessee; died in
Ocala, Florida, May 19, 1900.
e. and /. Floyd and Loyd (twin boys), born in Anderson
county, Texas, February 29, 1880. Live at Miami, Florida.
(6) Joanna Chaille was born in Paris, Kentucky. June 2,
1852; married December 5, 1867. to James Curtis, who died
October 10. 1868. One child, Lillian Curtis, was born March 2,
1869, and died November 15, 1893.
Joanna (Chaille) Curtis married, second. January i, 1874,
William Brown Warren, who was born April 11, 1850. in Hick-
man county, Tennessee. Is now chief engineer on a St. Louis
steamboat. Lives at Plant, Tennessee.
Children :
a. Mary Addie, born November 17, 1874; died December 5,
1879.
232 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
b. John Edward, born September 25. 1877; married Decem-
ber 28, 1898, to Nannie Byrne. Is a railroad man.
c. Paul Frederic, born May 19, 1881 ; married December 24,
1903, to Myrtle Robinson. Is a farmer living in Hickman, Ken-
tucky.
d. Newton Homer, born December 8, 1883.
e. Chris. Duncan, born December 22, 1886.
/. Annie Gertrude, born June 29, 1889.
g. Wyly Brown, born January 9, 1892; died November 27,
1895.
Newton W, Stribling
Newton W. Stribling, son of Thomas and Sarah Stribling, was
born in Jefferson county, Indiana, July 2, 181 7; married Decem-
ber 2y, 1840, to Elizabeth Taulman, who was born in Hamilton
county, Ohio, August 21, 1825. Newton Stribling died August
2, 1844. There was one child, Margaret T., who was born
October 2, 1843 > married December 14, 1862, to J. M. Gray, who
was born January 18, 1836. J. M. and Margaret Gray had one
child, Charles P. Gray, who was born July 10, 1865.
Elizabeth (Taulman) Stribling was married the second time
to James Losey. There were two children (twins), Sarah R. S.
and William L. S. Losey, born June 16, 1850.
Elizabeth Stribling Losey died March 11, 1853.
7
Amanda (Stribling) Rossen
Amanda, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Vawter) Stribling,
was born July 16, 1819; married March 6, 1842, to John Rossen;
died July 16, 1845.
There were two children, John, who married, and Josephine,
who married a Childers.
t
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 233
8
Milton S. Stribling
Milton S., son of Thomas and Sarah (Vawter) Stribhng, was
born May 20, 1821 ; married Nancy Moncrief, December 24,
1843; died March 10, 1863. No children.
9
Silas Stribling
Silas, son of Thomas and Sarah (Vawter) Stribling, was born
September 7, 1823; married Sarah A. Keith, December 28, 1845,
in Paris Crossing, Indiana. He learned the tanning business, then
for twenty years repaired watches and clocks, and for a while
took pictures, keeping the farm going all the time. He wrote
much poetry which was greatly appreciated by his friends and
neighbors. His wife, Sarah Keith, was the daughter of James
and Lucy Keith. The Keiths originally came from Carolina to
Kentucky, and then James came to Indiana.
Although they had no children of their own, Silas Stribling
and his wife reared Lydia Congdon, Silas Congdon, Lottie Yau-
ger. who married G. W. Dodd, and Floyd Hillerman, and they
kept for several years, Roy Smith and James Keith.
Silas Stribling and wife live at Paris Crossing, Indiana.
10
Uriah Stribling
Uriah, son of Thomas and Sarah (Vawter) Stribling, was
born April 19, 1825; married Hester Ann Cobb October 15.
1845; cli^cl April, 1901. No children. Uriah and Hester Stribling
reared two nieces, Hetty and Mattie Edwards.
Uriah Stribling first went into the harness and saddle business
234 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
in Paris Crossing, Indiana ; then married and went to North
Madison. .He moved to Tennessee in 1853, but returned to Madi-
son, Indiana, in about eight years. There, on the old homestead,
he opened a nursery; then traded that for a foundry, in which
business he continued for thirty years. His wife was the daughter
of John and Maria Cobb.
II
Sarah (Stribling) Chaille
Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Vawter) StribHng.
WIS born March 21, 1827; married January 23. 1848. to James
N. Chaille, who was born in Kentucky, June 28. 1827, and died
in Daviess county, Indiana, September 3, 1886.
Sarah (Stribling) Chaille died October 18, 1880.
Children of James N. and Sarah (Stribling) Chaille:
( 1 ) Uriah Milton Chaille was born in Frankfort, Kentucky,
December 19, 1848; married to Ella May Lambertson of Frank-
lin, Indiana, December 22, 1874. Ella May Lambertson, the
daup-hter of Colonel Samuel and Elizabeth Lambertson, was born
o
July 3, 1854. Her mother was a sister of the late General
Thomas Jefferson Morgan.
Uriah M. Chaille, after leaving college, was a teacher for some
time. Has been in the newspaper business since 1881. Was for
many years editor and owner of the Baptist Outlook, published
in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The children of Uriah M. and Ella L. Chaille :
a. Emerson Wayland Chaille was born in Johnson county,
Indiana, November 27, 1876. He is in business with the Stafford
Engraving Co., of Indianapolis, Indiana.
b. May Corinne Chaille was born January 11, 1886; died
August 22, 1890.
c. Harold Lambertson Chaille was born September 15, 1890.
(2) Thomas D. Chaille, born in Frankfort, Kentucky, Feb-
ruary 15, 1850; died November 28, 1850.
(3) Jesse V. Chaille was born in Decatur county, Indiana,
September 9, 1851 ; married to Alice Neal, August, 1879. They
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 235
have five children : Grace, Ernest, Jessie Katrine, Raymond and
Rnth Jane.
Jesse V. Chaille has a flour mill at Otwell, Indiana.
(4) Josiah M. Chaille, born November 20, 1854; died Jan-
uary 28, 1855.
(5) William T. Chaille, born November 19, 1856; died March
5, 1865.
(6) John C. Chaille, born in Jennings county, Indiana, Jan-
uary 6, 1867. Is an attorney-at-la\v, with office at Otwell, In-
diana, and doing business in Pike and adjoining counties. He
was married June 6, 1892, to Mollie F. Absher, of Harrisonville,
Missouri, who was bo'^n November 12, 1867.
They have two children: Oren, born August 19, 1893, and
Freda, born December 16, 1898.
(7) Sarah Jane Chaille was born in Jennings county, Indiana,
September 5, 1868; married to James Morgan, a theological
seminary student in the University of Chicago, June, 1893. Mr.
and Mrs. Morgan went as missionaries to India. Mr. Morgan
died in April, 1895. Mrs. Morgan is now a missionary in Hen-
zada, Burma, where she has been since October, 1898.
12
Infant son of Thomas and Sarah (Vawter) Stribling was born
March 22, 1830; died the next day.
i3
Artemecia (Stribling) Wolf
Artemecia, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Vawter) Strib-
ling, was born December 29, 1831 ; married June 17, 1849, ^0
Michael Wolf; died in Paducah, Kentucky, March 21, 1901.
Michael Wolf was born in Harrison county, West Virginia,
September 25, 1827. He came to Indiana in March, 1849, and
was married in that same year. With the exception of two years
236 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
he was in the railroad service from 1850 to 1891. He was the
oldest conductor in the state of Indiana when he retired in 1883.
He afterwards took charge of the grading and construction of
the Indianapolis and Vincennes Road and remained with this
road until 1891. Died August 19, 1897.
Children of Michael and Artemecia (Stribling) Wolf:
(i) Elizabeth Wolf was born September 18, 1853; married
September 8, 1867, to Milton H. Wooden, who was born at
Madison, Indiana. Live at Madison, Indiana.
Children :
a. Minnie O., born June 4, 1868; Perry M., born December
25, 1869; Fannie B., born December 8, 1871 ; William D., born
May 2, 1874; Arthur E., born December 10, 1879; Walter B.,
born July 30, 1882.
(2) Sarah Frances Wolf was born April 9, 1853, and died
November 2"/, 1871.
(3) Nancy Hester Wolf was born December 18, 1855; died
April 15, 1857.
(4) Thomas Elmer Wolf, born March 9, 1861 ; married to
Lilly M. Harsh, December 29, 1891. No children. Thomas E.
Wolf is a railroad man, living at Spencer, Indiana.
(5) Walter M. Wolf was born August 3, 1863; married
October 18, 1882, to Minnie Corner. Walter Wolf is a railroad
man, living at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
Children: Harry E., born December 21, 1887, and Martha
E., born January 19, 1902.
Children"
I. Copeland m.
Huldah Hall
VII.
JULIA (VAWTER) WISEs
(Jesse-*, David3, John2, Johni)
(1791-1834)
m.
MATTHEW WISE
( 1 788-1874)
Grandchildren' G. Grandchil-
dren*
' Carrie
Frank, m.
(i) Julia m.
Orrin Marshall i l^o^^' d- s.
Lnarles
Infant, d.
Virginia, m.
B. T.Millican
(2) Lucretia m.
W.T. Hunter
(3) Martha E. m.
S. W. Storey
(4) Edgar D., s.
(5) Helen Ruth m.
Sam'l E. Pal-
mer
(6) Virginia, d.
(7) Florence ra.
E. B. Tidd
(8) MackB., s.
(9) Sarah Belle ra.
Jno. E. Martin
(10) Jennie m. ist
Charles E.
Hunter
2d
Frederick
Kingsley
f James Vincent
I Elizabeth, m.
■\ Evans
I Nannie, m.
L Smith
I
Kate, m.
Lincoln Dixon
f Thomas
Samuel E., d.
Smith
Wm. D.
May
^ Laura
Gertrude, m.
Chaffin
Edith
f David Alex.
Esther Storey
Lucy Neal
^ Helen Ruth
j Eva Jean
G. G. Grandchil-
dren*
Frank
Nellie
Nadine
Jean
, Mary
[' Esther Claire
■{ Donald Storey
^ Dorothy
238 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
2. Elizabeth m. f ^'^ J^^^«
Ephraim Rogers i ^^^ Matthew
Others
3. Mary m.
( (i) Charles
(2) Jasper
(3) Edward
Taulman Burns ^ ^^'> ^^''^
(5) Julia m. Smith
(6) Ellen
, (7) Susan
4. Prudence, d. s.
(i) Prudence, s.
5. Patsy m.
William Kessick < j3) Mollie, m
(4) Julia, m.
(2) Matthew, d.
(5) Emma, m.
VII
JULIA (VAWTER) WISE
Julia, daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth (Watts) Vawter, was
born November 20, 1791; married February 16, 181 5, to Mat-
thew Wise, who was born May 28, 1788, and died in 1874. Julia
Wise died May 10, 1834.
The children were : Copeland, Elizabeth, Mary, Prudence and
Patsy.
I
Copeland Wise
Copeland Wise, son of Matthew and Julia Wise, was born
March 28, 181 6, in the vicinity of Madison, Indiana, where he
was engaged for many years in the livery, ice and transfer busi-
ness. He was married to Huldah Hall, who was born March 24,
1 81 8. Copeland Wise died August 8, 1892.
Children were Julia, Lucretia, Martha E., Edgar D., Helen
Ruth, Virginia, Florence, Mack B., Belle and Jennie.
( I ) Julia, daughter of Copeland and Huldah Wise, was born
April 23, 1836; married June 25, 1857, to Orrin Marshall, who
was born near Cincinnati, Ohio, February 21, 1827. They live
near Madison, Indiana.
THE VAVVTER FAMILY IN AMERICA f>39
Children :
a. Carrie, born March 25, 1858.
b. Frank, son of Orrin and Juha Marshall, was born October
9, 1859; married in Cincinnati, Ohio. His wife died August 29,
1896. His two children. Frank, twelve years of age, and Nellie,
aged eight, are living with their grandmother, Mrs. Marshall.
Frank Marshall is boiler inspector for the Hartford Co., at Cin-
cinnati.
c. George Marshall was born February 13, 1862; died un-
married October 11, 1887.
d. Charles Marshall was born January 10, 1865. Lives with
father.
e. Infant Marshall, born and died in 1867.
/. Virginia Marshall, born October 29, 1868; married B. T.
Millican in Madison, Indiana. Mr. Millican is a printer by trade.
Their children are Nadine, Jean and Mary.
(2) Lucretia, daughter of Copeland and Huldah Wise, was
born November 9, 1838; married to W. T. Hunter August 20,
1868. Lives at 204 Woodbine avenue, Louisville, Kentucky.
Children : James Vincent, Elizabeth Hunter Evans and Nan-
nie Hunter Smith.
(3) Martha E., daughter of Copeland and Huldah Wise, was
born February 6, 1841 ; married May 20, i860, to S. W. Storey;
died August 28, 1889. One child, Mrs. Kate Storey Dixon, lives
at North Vernon, Indiana. (See record of S. William Storey.)
(4) Edgar D. Wise, born April 3, 1843. Address unknown.
(5) Helen Ruth, daughter of Copeland and Huldah Wise,
was born in Madison, Indiana, November 7, 1845; married June
4, 1872, in Louisville, Kentucky, to Samuel Elliott Palmer, who
was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 23, 1843. Live in St. Paul,
Minnesota.
Children :
a. Thomas Palmer, born February 24, 1873; died December
14, 1890.
b. Samuel E. Palmer, Jr., born November 30, 1875 ; died De-
cember 2, 1877.
240 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
c. Smith Palmer, born November 25, 1877. Lives in Fargo,
North Dakota.
d. WilHam D. Palmer, born January i, 1880. Lives in Den-
ver, Colorado.
e. May Palmer, born April i, 1882.
/. Laura Palmer, born May 22, 1886.
(6) Virginia, daughter of Copeland and Huldah Wise, was
born October 3, 1848; died October 8, 1850.
(7) Florence, daughter of Copeland and Huldah Wise, was
born December 24, 1850; married E. B. Tidd January 8. 1874.
Children are Gertrude Tidd Chaffin, Hotel Metropole, Chi-
cago, and Edith Tidd of Detroit. Mr. and Mrs. Tidd live in
Cleveland, Ohio.
(8) Mack B., son of Copeland and Huldah Wise, was born
February 7, 1853. Lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
(9) Sarah Belle, daughter of Copeland and Huldah Wise,
was born in Madison, Indiana, April 5, 1858; married in Horse-
shoe, Colorado, September 7, 1881, to John Edwin Martin, who
was born in Monroe county, Kentucky, January 12, 1848. They
live at 239 West Ellsworth street, Denver, Colorado.
Children :
a. David Alexander Martin, born in Horseshoe, Colorado,
December 22, 1882.
b. Esther Storey Martin, born in Horseshoe, Colorado, May
I, 1885.
c. Lucy Neal Martin, born in Como, Colorado, September 21,
1888.
d. Helen Ruth Martin, born in Como, Colorado, December
7. 1891.
(10) Jennie, daughter of Copeland and Huldah Wise, was
born March 17, i860; married to Charles E. Hunter October 28,
1885. One child, Eva Jean Hunter, was born to them.
Jennie Wise Hunter was married, second, to Frederick Kings-
ley, February, 1902. Mr. and Mrs. Kingsley live in Cleveland,
Ohio.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 24I
Elizabeth (Wise) Rogers
Elizabeth, daughter of Matthew and JuHa (Vawter) Wise,
was born September 15, 18 18; married Ephraim Rogers. They
lived at Wirt, Indiana.
A son, Jesse, hved in Covington, Kentucky, or Indianapohs,
Indiana, but could not be found. A son, Matthew, was a fireman,
and lived in Indianapolis, Indiana, but could not be found.
Mary (Wise) Burns
Mary, daughter of Matthew and Julia (Vawter) Wise, was
born September 2, 1821 ; married Taulman Burns. Mack Burns,
a son, did live in Covington, Kentucky, but could not be found.
Mrs. Mary Burns did live with one of her children in Walnut
Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio, but a letter sent to her there was returned.
The names of her children were : Charles, died ; Jasper, Edward,
who did live in Cincinnati ; Mack, Julia, who married a Smith ;
Ellen and Susan.
4
Patsy (Wise) Kessick
Patsy, daughter of Matthew and Julia (Vawter) Wise, was
born January 17, 1824; married at Wirt, Indiana, to William
Kessick. Their children were : Prudence, who lives near Madi-
son, Indiana; Matthew, who died young; Mollie, Julia and
Emma.
5
Prudence Wise
Prudence, daughter of Matthew and Julia (Vawter) Wise,
was born February 6, 1826; died unmarried July 17, 1892.
VIII.
ACHILLES VAWTER5
(Jesse*, David^, John'^, Johni)
(1794-1S63)
m.
MARTHA SMITH
(179S- )
Children^
1. Julia m.
Bramwell
2. Wm. Jennings,
d.s.
3. Polly m.
Thrallkill
4. David m.
Eliza M. Todd
Grandchildren'
G. Grandchil-
dren*
G. G. Grandchil-
dren"
5. Henry m.
ist
Jane Leach
r Sev
era) children
(all dead)
No children
(i) Carrie m.
James C. Nor-
ris
(i) Charles m.
RosellaM.Mil-
ligan
(2) Martha
Eleanor, d.
(3) Frank ra.
Sallie Kyle
(4) Ida m.
Willis Mitchel
(5) Kathryn m.
James Kyle
(6) Wm. L. m.
Anne Shepherd
(7) Anna, d.
( Mabel Vawter
J Helen Louise
Philip Endicott
Frederick De Witt
- Bertha M.,d.
/ James
\ Frank
r Walter
I Charles
1 Hazel m.
I Edward King
I Marjorie
I Ralph V.
Elbert
2d
Mrs. Mary Nod-
ler
(8) Clyde
THE V'AWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
243
6. James rn.
1st
Eliza Goodhue
2d
7. Catherine m.
Hiram Read
8. Jane, s.
( (1) Lillian
( (2) Edgar,
. d.
d.
Nancy Johnson J
(3) George m.
(i) Pleasant, d.
(2) Marcellus, d.
(3) James m.
Eliza Veasay
(4) Samuel, d.
(5) Achilles, d.
(6) Fabricius m.
Sallie Ander-
son
(7) Clark B. m.
(8) Mattie, d.
(9) William m.
Lottie Doutch
( Son
[^ Daughte
\'irginia m.
Sherman Luken-
bill
(two boys)
Edgar, d.
Joseph
Two sons
{°
ne child
VIII
ACHILLES VAWTER
Achilles Vawter, son of Jesse and Elizabeth (Watts) Vawter,
was born near Madison, Indiana, February 21, 1794. He was
married August 14, 1814, to Martha Smith, who was born April
13. 1798.
Achilles Vaw^ter was tavern keeper and postmaster at Vernon.
Indiana, and was also a Master Mason.
The follow'ing notice appeared in the Vernon Banner of March
2"/, 1862:
"Died in Vernon, on the i8th instant. Hon. Achilles Vaw^ter.
The deceased came to Vernon in the year 18 17, and has con-
tributed largely to the improvement of our village and the pro-
motion of religious and educational associations. The citizens of
our county recognizing his merits have bestowed upon him many
official trusts, and especially the important office of judge of the
probate court, which he discharged with fidelity and approbation
of the public. His illness and sufferings, although protracted,
244 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
were sustained with patience and fortitude. His remains were
followed to the grave by the members of the Masonic fraternity
and other sympathizing friends."
Children of Achilles and Martha (Smith) Vawter were: JuHa,
William Jennings, Polly Ann, David, Henry L., James, Catherine
and Jane.
Julia (Vawter) Bramwell
Julia, daughter of Achilles and Martha Vawter, was born
February 4, 181 7; married a Bramwell, and died in Vernon,
Indiana, leaving several children, who also died. Her husband
went to Oregon.
Polly (Vawter) Thrallkill
Polly, daughter of Achilles and Martha (Smith) Vawter, was
born January 22, 1819; married a Thrallkill. Both she and her
husband died soon after their marriage and were buried at Ver-
non. They left no children.
William Jennings Vawter
William Jennings, son of Achilles and Martha Vawter, was
born November 3. 1820; died May 9, 1846. Unmarried.
David Vawter
David, son of Achilles and Martha (Smith) Vawter, was born
in 1824; married in 1854 to Eliza M. Todd; died May 24, 1884.
He was a merchant.
One child, Carrie, was born in 1856; married in 1883 to James
C. Norris, who was born in 1853.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 245
Children: Mabel Vawter, born January lo, 1884; Helen
Louise, born January 8, 1889; Philip Endicott, born in 1894,
died in 1894; Frederick DeWitt, born April 11, 1897.
Mr. Norris is in the wholesale millinery business, and lives in
Indianapolis, Indiana.
David Yawter and family lived in Franklin, Indiana. The wife
of David Vawter now lives with her daughter, Mrs. Norris.
5
Henry Vav^ter
Henry, son of Achilles and Martha (Smith) Vawter, was born
in Vernon, Indiana, August 22, 1826; married to Jane Leach
April 17, 1848.
Henry Vawter lived in Vernon all of his life except a few-
months spent in Franklin. He was an express messenger for
tW'enty-five years. Was city marshal at the time of his death.
Was a great lover of children, and was esteemed by all.
The children of Henry and Jane (Leach) Vawter w^ere:
Charles, Eleanor, Frank, Ida, Kathryn, William and Anna.
( 1 ) Charles H. Vawter was born February 28, 1849 ; married
September 24, 1874, to Rosella M. Milligan. They had one child,
Bertha M., who died wdien about a year old. Charles Vawter was
telegraph operator and agent at Sumner, Illinois, and was killed
on the railroad August 16, 1875.
(2) Martha Eleanor Vawter was born May 21, 1852; died
April 16, 1859.
(3) Frank A. Vawter was born December 29, 1854; married
to Sallie Kyle July 3, 1883; died June 10, 1889. He was a tele-
graph operator at North Vernon, Indiana.
The children of Frank A. and Sallie (Kyle) Vawter were:
James, who was born June 3, 1884, and Frank, born September
II, 1886.
Sallie (Kyle) Vawter was married, second, to J. H. Davis,
and is living in North Vernon, Indiana.
{4) Ida M. Vawter was born December 8, 1857; married
January 20, 1881, to Willis M. Mitchell, who was born Septem-
246 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
ber 16, 1850, in Jefferson county, Indiana. Mr. Mitchell has been
station baggage-master for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in
North Vernon, Indiana, for the past eighteen years.
The children of Willis M. and Ida Vawter Mitchell are: Wal-
ter, born November 11, 1881 ; Charles, born August 23. 1883;
Hazel May, born August 26, 1885, and Marjorie. born August
30, 1900.
Hazel May Mitchell was married April 6, 1904, to Edward
King, who was born in Madison county, Indiana, August 23,
1879. He is a glass worker by trade.
(5) Kathryn Vawter was born March 10, 1862; married July
28, 1888, to James Kyle, of North Vernon, Indiana. James Kyle
is a railroad employe. They have one child, Ralph V., who was
born August 30, 1890.
(6) W^illiam L., son of Henry and Jane Vawter, was born
July II, 1865; married January 14, 1888, to Anne E. Shepard,
William is a train dispatcher, living in Osawatomie, Kansas.
There is one child, Elbert, who was born November 28, 1888.
(7) Anna Vawter, still-born, March 5. 1869.
Jane (Leach) Vawter, wife of Henry, was born December 29,
1829, in Pittsburg, and died May 5, 1872.
Henry Vawter was married, second, September 12, 1876, to
Mrs. Mary Nodler. There was one child, Clyde, who was born
July 7, 1877.
Henry Vawter died February 3, 1892.
Mary Vawter, his wife, died January, 1898.
6
James Vawter
James, son of Achilles and Martha ( Smith) Vawter, was born
in Vernon, Indiana ; married, first, Eliza Goodhue. There were
two children, Lillian and Edgar, both of whom are dead.
James Vawter married, second, Nancy Johnson. They had
one son, George, who did live in Kansas, and who had one son
and one daughter.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 247
Catherine (Vawter) Read
Catherine, daughter of AchiUes and Martha (Smith) Vawter,
was born at Vernon, Indiana. November 17, 1828; married by
WilHam T. Stott to Hiram Read, March 22, 1843, and died No-
vember II, 1878. Hiram T. Read was a brother to James Read.
He was born in Jennings county, Indiana, February 14, 1824;
died April 20, 1900.
Children :
( 1 ) Pleasant Read, born August 29, 1845 - ^^^^ the same day.
(2) Marcellus Read, born July 12, 1846; died July 25, 1846.
(3) James H. Read was born July 24, 1847; married Eliza
Veasay. They had one child, Virginia, who married Sherman
Lukenbill and lived at New Albany, Indiana.
Sherman and Virginia (Read) Lukenbill have two boys — one
named Kenneth.
(4) Samuel T. Read, born March 7, 1850; died October 18.
1864.
(5) Achilles V. Read, born January 3, 1853; died November
23, 1864.
(6) Fabricius M. Read was born November 13, 1854; mar-
ried September 24, 1885, in New Albany, Indiana, to Sallie D.
Anderson, by Rev. George W. Fansler. Sallie D. Anderson was
born September 12, 1865, in Troy, Indiana. F. M. Read is a
salesman, living at 143 1 South street, Lafayette, Indiana.
The children of Fabricius and Sallie (Anderson) Read: Ed-
gar Fabricius, born January 2, 1888; died May 13, 1889, and Jo-
seph S. W., born March 28, 1891.
(7) Clark B. Read has a former wife and two sons living
somewhere in Indian Territory. Clark B. himself is married
again and lives at 312 Elm street, Dallas, Texas.
(8) Mattie Read was born August 6, 1859; died May 25,
1881.
(9) William Read married Lottie Doutch and has one child.
Lives at East Las Vegas, New Mexico.
IX.
ANN (VAWTER) MONCRIEF
Children*
John»
John'
David^
Jesse*
Ann Vawter^
(1797-1887)
m.
Abner Moncrief
(1797-1873)
2. Jesse, d. s.
3. Julia m.
Rossen
4. William m.
ist Cynthia
Montgomery
2d Rebecca
Wilson
5. Nancy Richie m.
Caleb Amsden
Grandchil-
dren'
G. Grandchil-
dren"
1, Elizabeth m.
Morgan Heflin
\ Lillie m. Kincart
(i) Abner m. ■{ -^ .,
^ ' ( Four others.
(2) Julia Ann ra. f Scott
ist Spriggs \ Riley
2d Shawnacy
(3) Wm. Jasper m.
(4) Mary J., d. s.
(5) Sarah E. m.
Mullis
(6) John Caleb
(i) Richard, d. s.
(2) Catherine m.
ist Roberts
2d
Lilly
Wilford
■{ Effie
Charles
Jasper
I Sev
eral children-
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Two children
f (i) Benjamin J. m. i No children
[^ (2) Charles E. m.
C (3) Annie Evelyn,
( (4) Wm. Robert
f (i) Sarah A. m.
Walter Ritchie
(2) Jesse V. m.
Ida Thompson
(3) William m.
Sophie Dean
Arthur
Ruth
Everett
Charles
Esther
Mabel
Fred
Annie
Robert
I Nellie
Charles
I Baby
r Hayworth
J Daisy
1 Agnes
l^ Gertrude
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249
Ann Moncrief
(Continued) ]
5. Nancy Amsden
( Contimied)
6. Sarah m.
Willis D. Ward ^
Agnes Wilbur,
d. s.
Mary Frances m.
Robert Torbet
Annie Maria m.
Richard D.
Kittle
f Leila
; Howard
I Ruth
I Baby
f Eva, d.
IraMontgom- ^ ^''''"
ery I Carrie, d.
L Mantie
(4) Abner m.
Josephine •
(i) Emma m.
(2) John m. fMaym.
ist JosieWalk- ^ —Carnegie
up Charles, d.
I Everett, d.
2d
(3) Charles E. m.
Clara B. Irwin
i
( A daughter, d.
1^ Two sons
f' Josephine E.
Raymond L.
(I)
Grace Anna, m.
ist Henry
Hinchman
2d Samuel
Johnson
No children
Mary Ferris
I Katherine A.
Lucy
IX
ANN (VAWTER) MONCRIEF
Ann Vawter, daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth (Watts) Vaw-
ter, was born in Frankhn county, Kentucky, September 27, 1797;
married January 27, 1820, to Abner Moncrief. and died April 8,
1887, at the house of her daughter, Mrs. Amsden, in Jefferson
county, Indiana.
Abner Moncrief was born August 2:^, 1797. in Nicholas
county, Kentucky, came to Jefferson county, Indiana, in 1808.
Was a farmer. Was deacon of the Baptist Church at Wirt, In-
diana, for many years. He died at Pressburg, Indiana. June 28,
The children of Abner and Ann (Vawter) Moncrief were:
Elizabeth, Jesse V., Julia. William, Nancy Richie. Sarah, Agnes
Wilbur, Mary Frances and Ann Maria.
250 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Elizabeth (Moncrief) Heflin
Elizabeth, daughter of Abner and Ann (Vawter) Moncrief,
was born December 13, 1820; married April 17, 1838, to Morgan
Heflin, and died near Wirt, Indiana, February 16, 1854. Morgan
Heflin was born November 15, 181 5.
Children of Morgan and Elizabeth (Moncrief) Heflin:
(i) Abner Heflin, born June 11, 1839; died July 9, 1891.
Five of Abner Heflin's children live at Strawn, Coffey county,
Kansas. One child, Lillie Kincart, lives at Fairfield, Weigo
county, Kansas.
(2) Julia Ann Heflin was born July 19, 1841 ; married
Spriggs and had two boys, Scott and Riley.
Julia Spriggs married, second, Shawnacy and lived in
Garnet, Kansas. She died there February 7, 1889.
(3) William Jasper Heflin v/as born April 28, 1843, and died
about 1892. Had five children — Lilly, Wilford, Effie, Charles
and Jasper.
(4) Mary Jane Heflin, born May 19, 1845; died December
23, 1864.
(5) Sarah E. Heflin, born May 16, 1850; married Mul-
lis. Lives in Missouri, Alton county, Oregon. Has several
children :
(6) John Caleb Heflin was born May 7, 1852. Lives at
Missouri, Alton county, Oregon.
Morgan Heflin married, second, Jane . He died March
23, 1896, near luka, Marion county, Illinois. His wife lives at
luka.
Jesse Moncrief
Jesse, son of Abner and Ann (Vawter) Moncrief, was born
February 21, 1823; died in December, 1824.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 25 1
3
Julia (Moncrief) Rossen
Julia, daughter of Abner and Ann Moncrief, was born January
17, 1825 ; married a Rossen and had two children — Richard, who
died unmarried, and Catherine, who married a Roberts the first
time and had two children. Is married a second time.
Julia (Moncrief) Rossen died March 20. 1864.
William Moncrief
William, son of Abner and Ann (Vawter) Moncrief, was born
near Madison, Indiana, May 31, 1827; married Cynthia Mont-
gomery, February 23, i860. William Moncrief was a farmer the
greater part of his life. He died August 21, 1901.
Cynthia Montgomery Moncrief was born February 23, i860,
and died September 6, 1880.
Children of William and Cynthia (Montgomery) Moncrief:
( 1 ) Benjamin J. Moncrief is married and lives at Nevada,
Missouri, R. F. D. No. 6. No children.
(2) Charles E. Moncrief is married and has three children —
Daisy, Earl and Ray. Address : Nevada, Missouri, R. F. D.
No. 6.
William Moncrief was married, second, to Rebecca Wilson,
who was born in Garrettsville, Ohio. Their children : Annie
Evelyn, born July 4, 1882; died July 14, 1883, and William
Robert, born September 22, 1884. Nevada, Missouri, R. R.
No. 6.
5
Nancy (Moncrief) Amsden
Nancy Richie, daughter of Abner and Ann Moncrief, was born
November 14, 1829, near Wirt, Indiana; married July i, 1852,
252 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
to Caleb Amsden, who was born July 29, 18 16, in Madison
county, New York. Live near Madison, Indiana, R. R. No. 5.
Children :
(i) Sarah A. Amsden, born May 16, 1853; married Walter
Ritchie, who owns a saw mill near Madison, Indiana. Their chil-
dren are Arthur, Ruth, Everett, Charles and Esther.
(2) Jesse V. Amsden, born August 20, 1855; married Ida
Thompson. Is a farmer, living near Rantoul, Illinois. Children :
Mabel, Fred, Annie, Robert, Nellie, Charles and Baby.
(3) William M. Amsden, born July 28, 1857: married Sophie
Dean. Is a lawyer, living at Marion, Indiana. Children : Hay-
worth, Daisy, who died, Agnes and Gertrude.
(4) Abner Amsden was born February 28, 1859; married
Josephine in Minnesota. Mail carrier on rural route, living
at Rochester, Minnesota. Children : Leila, How^ard, Ruth and
Baby.
6
Sarah (Moncrief) Ward
Sarah, daughter of Abner and Ann Moncrief, was born in
July, 1833, in Jefferson county, Indiana; married to Willis D.
Ward at Wirt, Indiana, February 11, 1853, by Rev. Thomas Hill.
Willis Ward was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, September
2, 1831, and died at Madison, Indiana, May 12, 1891.
The children of Willis D. and Sarah (Moncrief) Ward were
Emma, John and Charles.
( I ) Emma Ward was born at Neil's Creek, Indiana, Novem-
ber 20, 1853: married at Wirt, Indiana, September 2, 1874, to
Ira Montgomery by Rev. W. Y. Monroe.
Ira Montgomery was born near Shelbyville, Indiana, January
26, 1849.
Children of Ira and Emma Montgomery :
a. Eva, born September 9, 1875; died November 28, 1895.
b. Alvin, born March 7, 1877. Is a bookkeeper in Madison,
Indiana.
c. Carrie, born May 13, 1879; died January 2, 1901.
d. Mantie, born October 5, 1884.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 253
(2) John Ward was married to Josie Walkup. They lived
at Gas City, Indiana, and had three children : May, who married
a Carnegie and lives at 804 Wilson avenue, Chicago; Charlie,
who died unmarried, and Everett, who died when a child.
John Ward married second time and had three children. The
oldest child, a daughter, died. Two boys, one about thirteen years
old and one about three, are living.
John Ward now lives in Chicago.
(3) Charles E. Ward was born March 26, 1862, in Jefferson
county, Indiana; married Clara B. Irwin, September 2, 1886.
Clara B. Irwin was born September 26, 1868, in Clinton county,
Indiana.
Children :
a. Josephine E. Ward, born March 16, 1887, in Clinton
county, Indiana.
b. Raymond L. Ward, born June 20, 1888, in Clinton county,
Indiana.
c. Mary Ferris Ward, born December 6, 1893, ^^ Marion
county, Indiana.
d. Katherine A. Ward, born August 5, 1900, in Marion
county, Indiana.
Charles E. Ward and family live at 2042 Highland place,
Indianapolis, Indiana.
7
Agnes Moncrief
Agnes Wilbur, daughter of Abner and Ann Moncrief was born
July 22, 1835; died April 17, 1881.
8
Mary (Moncrief) Torbet
Mary Frances, daughter of Abner and Ann Moncrief, was
born November 14, 1837: married in 1866 to Robert Torbet, who
254 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
was born April 24, 1831, and died June 8, 1893. They had one
child, Grace Anna.
Grace Anna was born in 1867; married May 27, 1886. to
Henry Hinchman. They had one child, Lucy, who was born in
1888.
Henry Hinchman died May 6, 1892.
Grace (Torbet) Hinchman married the second time on Janu-
ary 7, 1900, to Samuel Johnson. She died July 28, 1902.
Mrs. Mary Torbet and granddaughter live in Vernon, Indiana.
9
Annie (Moncrief) Kittle
Annie Maria, daughter of Abner and Ann (Vawter) Mon-
crief, was born May i, 1841 ; married in Madison, Indiana, July
16, 1 871, to Richard D. Kittle, who was born December 5, 1837.
Mr. and Mrs. Kittle lived six years in Iowa, then went to Barton
county, Kansas, where they took a claim October i, 1877, and
lived on the place until May i, 1904, when they moved to Hois-
ington, Kansas.
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PHILEMON VAWTER
Philemon Vawter, son of David and Mary (Riicker) Vawter,
was born in Ciilpeper county, Virginia, October 16, 1762. His
wife, Anna Vawter (her name being given in her father's old
records as iVnne) , was born in Ciilpeper county, Virginia, No-
vember 14, 1758. She was the daughter of Beverly Vawter, who
was the brother of David. They were married about 1779. Soon
after their marriage they crossed the mountains to what is now
eastern Tennessee. In 1792 they emigrated to Kentucky and
settled in Woodford county, near Versailles. Although they were
brought up in the Episcopal Church they now united with the
Baptist Church. In 1795 they moved to a new home on the bank
of the Ohio river in Boone county, Kentucky. They afterwards
moved from Boone county, Kentucky, to Trimble county, oppo-
site Madison, Indiana. Philemon Vawter and family moved to
Indiana in the year 1808, and entered or bought eighty acres of
land where Spring Dale cemetery now is in Madison, Indiana.
Philemon Vawter helped build the first house in Madison. His
own house, which was a two-story log-house, was located about
one mile back from the Ohio river.
Philemon Vawter was a farmer, a chair-maker, a maker of
spinning wheels and a Baptist minister. He died April 15, 1814,
and was buried near Madison, Indiana, but the body was after-
wards removed to the Vawter cemetery, near the home of
William Vawter, about three miles from Vernon, Indiana.
Anna Vawter, the wife of Philemon, lived with her daughter
Frances for the greater part of her time after she gave up her
home. Frances (Vawter) King, a granddaughter of Anna Vaw-
ter, tells the following :
"Grandmother lived with father and mother for a long time.
Father had been promising grandmother to take her on a visit
to Madison. I went with them. We went to visit at Mrs. Vail's.
It happened during the first day that we were there, that grand-
mother was left alone in the sitting-room. She started to go out
of the room, made a m.istake, went out of the wrong door and
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 257
fell into the cellar. She was found there a few minutes after-
wards. At first she was thought to be dead, but was soon revived.
No bones were broken, though she was badly bruised. She would
have recovered entirely had it not been that, in her anxiety to
wait upon herself, she arose from her bed and, in so doing,
slipped, fell and broke her hip bone. From this injury she never
recovered.
''We stayed a number of weeks at Mrs. Vail's and were at
great expense, as we paid Mrs. Vail twenty-five dollars per week.
Grandmother was very anxious to be taken back home. I wrote
to father, urging him to send Uncle John for us. Uncle John
came, got a wagon, put springs in it and a bed on them, and
grandmother on the bed. She was taken in this way to the train.
Father was at Vernon with a wagon, the bed of which had been
filled with switches to make it springy, and then a bed had been
laid on top of that. Grandmother was not hurt at all by the
move. She said she believed it did her good. Grandmother lay
in this helpless condition for six years before her death. I took
care of her during the most of that time. It seemed that no one
else pleased her as well. I slept on a little bed by her side and
awoke at her lightest whisper."
Anna Vawter died July 21, 1845, and was buried in the Vaw-
ter cemetery near North Vernon, Indiana.
Children of Philemon and Anna Vawter were : Richard, El-
liott, Frances, Jesse, Beverly, Lucy, Nancy, Elizabeth and David.
I.
RICHARD VAWTER5
(Philemon^, David^, John^, Johni)
(1780-1S47)
m.
SARAH SNELLING
(1781-1851)
Children*
1. Jesse, d.
2. Annie m.
James Smith
3. Nancy m.
John Smith
4. John S. m.
Emily Cooprider
Grandchildren'
Two daughters
Sarah Ann
Melita Frances
Esther Annie m.
George Gregg
George H., d.
Richard Perry, d.
Sarah Elizabeth, d.
Amanda Frances
m.
Edward J. Hol-
land
Margaret M., d.
Martin V. m.
5. Elizabeth m. Marry Harris, d.
Edward Harris 1 Rebecca Harris, d.
Thomas Perry, d.
Paulina Katherine
m.
Andrea Giovan-
noli
G. Grandchil-
dren*
G. G. Grandchil-
dren^
*. ij
f George Vawter, d.
Naomi m.
Martin Thompson
James Madison
Richard Lilly m.
Emma J. Rogers
Capitola Elizabeth
m.
L. C. Holland
Kate m.
B. F. Daniels
James Edward, d.
Roberta m.
Braxton Beacham
Daniel Christie, d.
Benjamin Bowl-
ing, d.
Harry m.
Carrie Kinnaird
Mary Elizabeth m.
Leonard Tingle
Olive Margaret
Annie Mosley
Agnes Price, d.
Louise Katherine
Frank Vawter
Francis Arthur
Clara
Roberta
Norma
Braxton B.
Roberta
Harry, d.
Charles Leonard
Robert Kinnaird
Harry Giovannoli
Leonard G.
Elizabeth Vawter
THE VAVVTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
259
5. Elizabeth Harris
( Continued)
6. Frances Alpha
m.
Joseph Mosley
7. Melita m.
Sanford McDan-
iels
8. Jannette, d.
9. Amanda m.
Geo. W. Vaughn
Ellen, d.
Edward, d.
Charles, d.
Mary Louise, d.
Annie m.
Daniel Sheehan
Annie
James
10. Milton, d.
2d
Mary Elizabeth, d.
Joseph Daniel
Mary Frances m.
Harry Albert
Kendal
John Edward
Annie Agnes
Eugene Andrew
George Curry
Martin Thomas, d.
Amanda Frances |
1st George Ack-
man
Richard m.
ist Elizabeth
Robertson
2d Hannah
Kipfer
Anna, d.
Shig I g..
Richard
Katie
Elizabeth m.
James Eichel-
berger
Manles E.
Allen K.
Ollie M.
George W.
Roger F.
Metta L.
Raymond
Stanley Edison
Lesley Ellsworth
RICHARD VAWTER
Richard Vawter, son of Philemon and Anna Vawter, was
born, probably, in Culpeper county, Virginia, September 19,
1780. His parents came to Kentucky from what is now eastern
Tennessee in 1792. They settled in Woodford county, near
Versailles.
Richard Vawter lived in Lexington, Kentucky. He \\'as a
wheelwright, an elder in the Christian Church, a large land-owner
26o
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
and a public-spirited citizen. He was married July 25, 1802, to
Sarah Snelling, of Fredericksburg, Virginia. Richard Vawter
was thrown from his buggy by a frightened horse and fell over
a ledge of rocks on Main street, Lexington, Kentucky, and died
in 1847, ^ f^w days after his fall.
Sarah Snelling Vawter was born June 22, 1781, and died about
1 85 1. She belonged to the well-known Snelling family of Vir-
ginia, her father and two brothers being in the Revolutionary
War.
A granddaughter of Richard Vawter, Miss Annie Mosley, who
is now living in St. Louis, Missouri, said : "I remember hearing
grandmother talk of grandfather having invented a machine for
crushing rock for the turnpikes and what a great saving it would
be. When it was brought before the public, however, it was
thought it would throw many men out of work who made their
living crushing rock, and so it was set aside. Grandfather was a
dear old man. I could almost paint his picture from memory.
One of Amanda's children and I lived with grandmother until
her death, as we were both orphans. I remember grandmother
telling me of a young daughter, not more than fifteen years of
age, who had died. For many years grandmother didn't know
where her son John was. He left home when very young. There
were only two daughters living at the time of grandmother's
death — Anne and Elizabeth. The old homestead was then broken
up and the family Bible was taken by Anne to Laurenceburg,
Kentucky. Grandmother's memory has been to me the sweetest
thing in life. It is as dear as the day she left me."
Richard Vawter at one time owned a large tract of land, a
great deal of which was lost by payment of security debts.
In the records of Fayette county, Kentucky, it appears that
Richard Vawter, of Scott county, Kentucky, bought a lot in
Lexington, Kentucky, on Water street, in 1814, another in 1820,
and another in 182 1.
It also appears that John B. Payne, as commissioner of
Fayette county, sold a tract of land lying on Water street in
Lexington, Kentucky, to settle the estate of Richard Vawter, in
1858.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 261
The heirs of Richard Vawter, as shown by the above settle-
ment, were Edward Harris and Elizabeth Harris, James Smith
and Ann Smith, James McDaniel, John Smith and Sarah Smith,
Esther Vawter, single ; Ann Mosley, granddaughter, and Richard
and Fanny Vaughn, grandchildren.
The last of the recorded transactions of Richard Vawter was
in 1846.
Children of Richard and Sarah (Snelling) Vawter:
I
Jesse Vawter
Jesse, son of Richard and Sarah (Snelling) Vawter, was born
May I, 1803, probably died in infancy.
Anne (Vawter) Smith
Anne, daughter of Richard and Sarah (Snelling) Vawter^
was born May i, 1804; married James Smith, a widower with
two sons. She had two daughters. They lived in Laurenceburg,
Kentucky.
3
Nancy (Vawter) Smith
Nancy, daughter of Richard and Sarah (Snelling) Vawter,
was born March 10, 1806; married May 18, 1826, to John Smith;
died October 10, 1838.
Children: Sarah Ann Smith, born May 12, 1827, Melita
Frances Smith, born February 26, 1829.
4
John S. Vawter
John S., son of Richard and Sarah (Snelling) Vawter, went
away from home when very young. He was born in Lexington,
Kentucky, May 24, 1808; married September 27, 1832, to Emily
Cooprider, who was born November 14, 181 2, in Indiana. John
262 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
S. Vawter was a Christian minister. He lived at Thorntown,
Indiana, and also at Indianapolis. He died at Azalia, Bartholo-
mew county, Indiana, of consumption, January 20, 1843. He
left one child, Esther Annie. His wife afterwards married a
Cope and lived near Madison, Indiana.
(i) Esther Annie Vawter was born April 23, 1837; married
May 24, i860, to George Gregg, an editor, who was born in
May, 1838, and died suddenly in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1871.
Mrs. Gregg lives in Danville, Indiana.
Children :
a. George Vawter Gregg, born May 21, 1861; died Septem-
ber 12, 1878.
h. Naomi Gregg, born June 7, 1863 ; married Martin Thomp-
son and lives near Danville, Indiana. They have one child, Frank
Vawter Thompson, who was born March 6, 1902.
c. James Madison Gregg was born June 7, 1865. Lives in
Danville, Indiana.
5
Elizabeth (Vawter) Harris
Elizabeth, daughter of Richard and Sarah (Snelling) Vawter,
was born September 10, 1810, married May i, 1828, to Edward
Harris, a shoemaker, at Lexington, Kentucky. Elizabeth Har-
ris died at Lexington, Kentucky, April 6, 1867. Edward Harris
was born in New York state March 25, 1807; died at Danville,
Kentucky, April 4, 1883.
Children :
(i) George H. Harris was born July 7, 1829; died July 7,
1829.
(2) Richard Perry Harris, born October 9, 1830; died Au-
gust 25, 1832.
(3) Sarah Elizabeth Harris, born July 3, 1833; died Octo-
ber 14, 1837.
(4) Amanda Frances Harris was born in Lexington, Ken-
tucky, April 30, 1835; married April 30, 1857, to Edward J.
Holland, who was born in Lexington, Kentucky, January 12,
1835. E. J. Holland is a wagon-maker living in Orlando, Flor-
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 263
ida. Amanda (Harris) Holland died in Orlando, Florida,
March 30, 1891.
Children :
a. Richard Lilly Holland was born January 28, 1858; mar-
ried May 21, 1887, to Emma J. Rogers. R. L. Holland is a
carriage manufacturer living in Orlando, Florida. He has three
children : Francis Arthur, Clara and Roberta.
b. Capitola Elizabeth Holland was born March 9, i860; mar-
ried her cousin, L. C. Holland, a wagon-maker. They live in
Cartersburg, Illinois.
c. Kate Holland was born August 11, 1863; married in
1884 to B. F. Daniels, who died. Mrs. Daniels lives in St. Louis,
Missouri.
d. James Edward Holland was born May 17, 1865. He was
a blacksmith, but is now dead.
e. Roberta Holland was born January 25, 1867; married
June 26, 1887, to Braxton Beacham. They have three children:
Norma, Braxton B. and Roberta. They live in Orlando, Florida.
/. Daniel Christie Holland was born December 26, 1872.
He was a barber, but is now dead,
g. Benjamin Bowling Holland was born January 26, 1874;
dead.
(5) Margaret M. Harris, born January 3, 1836; died March
24, .
(6) Martin V. Harris was born November 27, 1837. He
was a soldier in the Union Army; was a prisoner at Anderson-
ville. After the war he moved to Cass county, Illinois, where he
married his cousin, Mary L. Harris, April 18, i860. He died
at the Soldiers' Home in Quincy, Illinois, November i, 1898,
leaving no children.
(7) Rebecca Harris, born December 20, 1841 ; died June
16, 1852.
(8) Thomas Perry Harris, born May 19, 1843; died Feb-
ruary 28, 1857.
(9) Paulina Katherine Harris was born at Lexington, Ken-
tucky, January 13, 1845, married June 22, 1865, at Lexington,
Kentucky, to Andrea Giovannoli, a merchant, and died in Dan-
264 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
ville, Kentucky, October 21, 1892. Andrea Giovannoli was born
at Lucca, Italy, January 13, 1834; died April 16, 1893. He was
a soldier under Garibaldi and was wounded at Solferino,
Children :
a. Harry Giovannoli was born at Lexington, Kentucky, April
10, 1866; became a printer's apprentice at Danville, Kentucky,
April I, 1878; was made local editor of the Tri-Weekly Kentucky
Advocate, at Danville, in 1891, and in 1895 was employed as as-
sociate editor and manager of the same newspaper, which posi-
tion he held until April i, 1901, when he accepted the position of
private secretary to the Hon. John W. Yerkes. Commissioner of
Internal Revenue. Harry Giovannoli married October 5, 1898,
Carrie Kinnaird, daughter of Rev. Robert H. and Mary (Mar-
tin) Kinnaird. Rev. Robert H. Kinnaird was a minister of the
Presbyterian Church, South, and was a son of Mr. James Kin-
naird, a merchant, at Danville, Kentucky, who was a native of
Scotland. Mary (Martin) Kinnaird was a daughter of Hon.
Joshua Lanier Martin, Governor of Alabama. Carrie Kinnaird
was born at Fort Smith, Arkansas, May 4, 1873.
Children of Harry and Carrie (Kinnaird) Giovannoli:
(a) Harry, born September 11, 1899; died December 12,
1899.
(b) Charles Leonard, born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
November 30, 190 1.
(c) Robert Kinnaird, born at Washington, District of Co-
lumbia, March 13, 1904.
h. Mary Elizabeth Giovannoli was born at Lexington, Ken-
tucky, May 7, 1868; married to Leonard Tingle, at Danville,
Kentucky, November 11, 1891. Leonard Tingle, head clerk for
J. D. Purcell, Lexington, Kentucky, was born at Lexington,
March i, 1866, a son of William and Amanda Tingle, who were
married May 12, 1853. The children of Leonard and Mary
(Giovannoli) Tingle are :
(a) Harry Giovannoli Tingle, born November 29, 1892,
(b) Leonard G. Tingle, born August 28, 1896.
(c) Elizabeth Vawter Tingle, born March 24, 1905.
c. Olive Margaret Giovannoli, was born at Paris, Kentucky,.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 265
November 5, 1869. She is now assistant supervisor of Girls'
Kentucky School for the Deaf, Danville, Kentucky.
d. Annie Mosley Giovannoli was born at Lexington, Ken-
tucky, July 12, 1 87 1. Employed at the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, Washington, District of Columbia.
e. Agnes Price Giovannoli, born at Lexington, Kentucky,
June 12, 1874; died November 21, 1874.
/. Louise Katharine Giovannoli, born June 17, 1876, Lex-
ington, Kentucky. Lives with her brother.
(10) Ellen Harris, born May 11, 1847; ^^^^ March 9, 1852.
(11) Edward Harris, Jr., born June 24, 1849; died July 27,
1849.
(12) Charles Harris, born September 10, 1850; died Sep-
tember 10. 1850.
(13) Mary Louise Harris, born June 20, 1852; died Sep-
tember 14, 1854.
(14) Annie Harris was born February 3, 1855, at Lexing-
ton, Kentucky; married September 17, 1871, to Daniel Sheehan;
died August 11, 1902, in Owingsville, Kentucky.
Daniel Sheehan was born in County of Cork, Ireland, Septem-
bei; 3, 1844; crossed the Atlantic when nine years old; began
learning the saddle and harness business at twelve; owned a
saddle and harness establishment in Danville, Kentucky; made a.
saddle called the "Kentucky Spring Seat," which became well
known in many states; lost his entire stock in a fire at Danville,
Kentucky, about 1873; died in Owingsville, Kentucky, October
16, 1904.
Children of Daniel and Annie (Harris) Sheehan: "•:
a. Mary Elizabeth Sheehan, born and died July 21, 1872, at
Danville, Kentucky.
h. Joseph Daniel Sheehan, born December 14, 1873, at Dan-
ville, Kentucky. Is a paper-hanger and house and buggy painter.
Lives at Owingsville, Kentucky.
c. Mary Frances Sheehan, born December o. 1875, at Dan-
ville, Kentucky; married February 21, 1900, to Harry Albert
Kendall; divorced in 1902. Mrs. Kendall lives at Owingsville
with her brothers.
266 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
d. John Edward Sheehan, born May 15, 1878, at George-
town, Kentucky. Is a printer living at Owingsville, Kentucky.
e. Annie Agnes Sheehan, born April 21, 1881, at George-
town, Kentucky. Lives at Owingsville, Kentucky, with brothers.
/. Eugene Andrew Sheehan, born February 22, 1884, at
Owingsville. Kentucky.
g. George Curry Sheehan, born April 22, 1886, at Owings-
ville, Kentucky.
h. Martin Thomas Sheehan, born and died April 18, 1887,
at Owingsville, Kentucky.
6
Frances (Vawter) Mosley
Frances Alpha, daughter of Richard and Sarah (Snelling)
Vawter, was born February 13, 1813; married October 30, 1831,
to Joseph Mosley, of Manchester, England, a man much older
than herself. She died August 16, 1835, leaving a daughter,
Annie, who was born in April, 1833. After the death of her
mother, the child lived with her grandparents, Richard and Sarah
Vawter. Joseph Mosley went to South America and died there
in 1845. Miss Annie Mosley was for many years supervisor of
the female wards of the insane asylum at Lexington, Kentucky.
She is now living in St. Louis, Missouri.
7
Melita (Vawter) Sanford
Melita, daughter of Richard and Sarah (Snelling) Vawter,
was born April 16, 1815; married August 2, 1832, to Sanford
McDaniels; died in childbirth, April 25, 1844. Miss Mosley
said : "I have often heard grandmother speak of her and what
a beautiful woman she was. Her father named her for the island
on which the Apostle Paul was cast. She lived next to grand-
father's home. After her death her husband went to Illinois.
She left one child, James."
8
Jannette Vawter
Jannette, daughter of Richard and Sarah (Snelling) Vawter,
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 267
was born June 13, 1818; probably died at about the age of
fifteen years.
.9
Amanda (Vawter) Vaughn
Amanda Vawter, daughter of Richard and Sarah (SnelHng)
Vawter, was born in Lexington, Kentucky, August 8, 1820; mar-
ried July 15, 1837, to George W. Vaughn; died October 25, 1842.
Children :
( 1 ) Amanda Frances Vaughn, after the death of her mother,
lived with her grandparents, Richard and Sarah Vawter. She
was married, first, to George Ackman, and had one child, Anna,
who died. Amanda married, second, Mr. Shig, and had two
children, Richard and Katie.
(2) Richard Vawter Vaughn was born January 2, 1840;
married, first, December 29, 1859, to Elizabeth Robertson.
Children :
a. Elizabeth, married James W. Eichelberger and lives in
Covington, Kentucky.
h. Manles E., lives in Covington, Kentucky.
c. Allen K., lives in Covington, Kentucky.
d. Ollie M., lives in Covington, Kentucky.
c. George W.. lives in Newport, Kentucky.
/. Roger F., lives in East St. Louis.
Richard Vaughn married, second, August 8, 1893, Hannah
Kipfer, who was born May 10, 1865. They live in Lexington,
Kentucky.
Children :
a. Metta L., born June 9, 1894, in Louisville, Kentucky.
h. Raymond, born April 20, 1898, at Portsmouth, Ohio.
c. Stanley Edison, born May 12, 1901, at Lexington, Ken-
tucky.
d. Lesley Ellsworth, born October 16, 1904.
10
Milton Vawter
Milton Vawter, son of Richard and Sarah (Snelling) Vaw-
ter, was born April 20, 1822; probably died in infancy.
11.
ELLIOTT VAWTER5
(Philemon'^, David ^, John 2, John^)
(1782-1863)
ANNA GRAY
(1783-1856)
Children'*
I. Frances, d. s.
Grandchildren^
, Presley Vawter
ID. ist. Elenor
Floyd
2d.
Margaret Mc-
Adams
(I) Elizabeth A.
m.
Jefferson Fruit
(2) Nancy E. m. ,
Spencer Goodson
(3) John E. m.
Kittie Radway
(4) Ophelia G. m. (
L Hunter (
James R.
(5) Charles A. m. \
Eva G. Saylor j
(6) Margaret Lu- [
ella m. Samuel •{
Welch I
G. Grandchil-
DREN»
Mary Eleanor m.
J. M. Doubt
Nancy Emily m.
Abram Isaacs
Edmund Presley
m. Sallie Mo-
croft
Logan Brown m.
Jessie Morrison
Walter Elliott m.
Ellen Grossman
Ellen m.
Augustus Haw-
ley
Addie
Alice
Hattie
Orson
Thomas
Harry
No children
OUieM.
Mary E.
Ethel
Cornelius L.
John Earl
Frank J.
Nellie F.
Charles V.
Margaret R.
G. G. Grandchil-
dren''
No children
Thomas Edmond
Alfred Abram
Walter Fruit
Rhoda Elizabeth
Allen Jefferson
Bessie
Julian Elliott
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
269
3d.
Sarah Hamil
ton
3. JephthaD.Vaw-
ter m.
ist.
Sarah M. Fos-
ter
r (7)
M
Philips, m. {
innieL.Bevans /
Blanche B.
George B.
(8) Sarah Belle m.
Robert H. Welch
' Clarence V.
Mary E.
- Grace B.
Robert G.
, William O.
(9) Presley G. m.
Emily Gambill
(10) William W.,
d. s.
r (i) John Washing-
ton m.
ist. Louise
Chestnut
^
2d. I
Martha Hess "j
r Rufus L.
Ruth E.
Fern G.
Fane F.
Raymond G.
Samuel Dudley m.
Minnie Harris
Wm. David m.
Ivie McCullough
Florence Maria m.
William Routh
- Eliza Jane
r Jephtha Levi m.
Edith Henning
Fred Clay m.
[ Annie Brigham
3d.
Ser
Serepta Hamil- ) No child
ton (
ran
' BethenaEUen m.
Joseph Robinson
(2) Benjamin F. ra. Amy Catherine m.
Mary E. Bright -{ Parker Perry
(3) Mary Ann
Elizabeth, d. s.
r
Charles Henry m.
Katherine Ecker
Olive lona m.
No children
Myrtle Lowell
GoldieCall
Evan V.
Clifford
Jessie
Walter Fred
Wayne
(Arthur
Earl
Leonard
Several others
( Wayland
1 Junia
Laura
Francis
Helen
Bertha
L Baby
(4) Henry Clay m.
3t. Sarah La-
vina Davies
Clarence Smith
Annie, d.
. .. c t T r Clarence, d,
1st. Sarah La- J .,
.„„o r^o.„„„ ^ Lucy.d.
Sarah Lavina
Lewis Henry m.
Ada E. Wilson
2d.
Lizzie R.Davis \ No children
270
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
(5)
Lucinda Caro-
line m. C. Wal-
ter Hinman
Jephtha D.
Vawter
( Continued)
Henry Vawter
Mary Ellen m.
William Gillan
(6) Louisa Ellen
m. Jesse McColm
(7)Nancy Tandy,d.
(8) Martha Celestia
m. ist. Alexan-
der Waltmire
2d. Richard
Simpson
(9) James Elliott
m. Mary E.
Huxtable
(10) Sarah Jane, d.s. (^
Augusta Orissa m.
James Gillan
Nina Jane
Eva May
Richard Franklin
m. Mary Leonard
George Elmer
Viola Olivia
Ernest Everett ra.
Dora Dazell
Otis Vernon, d.
Josephine Ellen
Vernon Oak
Anna Belle, d.
Sarah Ellen m.
F. A. Newman
George William
Leonard Franklin
Stella May, d.
Leslie Wayne
Walter Leigh
Nina May
Charles Ross
Mable Augusta
Harry Laurence
Laura Maud
Lewis Elbert
Ruth Caroline
Richard Hugh
Nellie Margaret
Edna May
Walter Hinman
Margaret
Infant, d.
Harold Anson
Nina Modised
Jephtha Dudley, d.
(II) ^Harriet E. m. ^ j^j^^ ^1^^^,^
I Elsie May
(^ Carl Owen
C Effie May m.
Lewis A. Mead
m. 2d. Louisa
K. Miller
4. Dudley Vawter,
d.s.
(12) Sabrina K. m.
M. Franklin
Stout
(13) Wm. Jephtha
m. ist. Lydia
Yarrington
2d. Mary E.
Zane
(14) Clarence
i
Lewis G. Stahl
Herbert Oscar m.
Katharine D.
Roberts
Laura Mabel
Arlen O.
Ice Reta, d.
Alfred Z.
Veva J.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
271
5. Sabrina Vawter
m. Lewis Tutt
(1) Charles L., d.,
m. Mary Duke
(2) George W., d.
(3) John Presley,
d., m.
Mariah Donley
(4) David Vawter,
d.
(5) James Elliott
m.
Margaret
Powell
(6) Sarah Cather-
ine m.
Wm. Henry
Garden
Alice, d.
James, d.
Myra, d.
James Leonard m.
Emily West
Ben Floyd m.
Florence West
Annie Hope, d.
Alice m.
George Gish
James Lewis m.
Rebecca Guthrie
Mary Ellen m.
John Kirk
John Henry m.
Netta Binkley
May m.
ist.
Samuel Henson
Lawrence Wm.
{
Laura Gish
Jacob Gish
f Corinne
I Earl
■{ Hansel
I Hebren
(^ Marguerite
Gertrude
Loto
James
Ruth
2d.
Watson Rice
Ida EUonia m.
Quint Conger
Azilee m.
George Watson
Wille m.
Jesse Binkley
Rollie m.
Sallie Brown
Jesse m.
Mary Hawkins
^ Clarence Alpheus
f William Henry
I Ollie James
H Crawford
I Sarah
L Allen
Lena
Guy
Beulah
Vera
r Etwell
I Vernon
Sallie May
I
L George
Virgil
Harry
Annie Ree
Grace
Lee
Clara May
I
272
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Sabrina V. Tutt
{Continued)
(7) Henry Day m.
Mary A. Wood
f Lena S.
Frank M.
Carrie L.
John L.
Arthur C.
George D.
Otis Floyd
Horace Russell
Mamie A.
Henry M.
(8) Virginia m.
ist.
Andrew J.
VVhitaker
2d.
William Stew-
art
(9) Mary Ellen, d.,
m. Hodge
(10) Benjamin F.
m. Farmer
1
Mary Whitaker m.
Ford
(11) Meredith D.
m. Virg-Jnia E. <
Wood
(12) Wyatt, d.
(13) Thomas, d.
(14) Jephtha, d.
(i5)Jephtha ) twins,
(16) Jesse ) d.
William Dudley
Delia May
Neppie Virginia
Mary Alice
Annie Azilee
Tripsley Dudley
Lorene
Corene
Birdie May, d.
James E. m.
Lockey Gambreal
Ida Bell
Robert L.
Oscar Elliott
Tommie Elizabeth
m. Walter E.
Maynor
Benjamin Lee
I John Henry
Eugene Noval
(i) Jephtha Burn-
ley, d.
(2) Henry Clay m.
ist.
Mary Brann
6. Lucinda Vawter
m,
JohnW. Holmes
2d.
Nancy I.Jones
Nancy C, d.
Riley L., d.
Mary L. m.
Wm. L. Oliver
i
Martha F., d.
John P.
Ira E. m.
Wayland Adams
r Mabel
Henry
Adolphus
Ira
^ Wendell
j Alton
Mckindree
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
VZ
2d.
6. Lucinda V.
Holmes
{Continued)
Nancy Holmes
(ContirMed)
Lucinda, d.
Henry C. m.
Tassie B. Moore
William E.
Nellie I.
Charles H.
(3) John Elliott m.
1st.
Mary Pitman
2d.
Laura Hopkins
3d.
Margaret Alex- <
ander
4th.
Mrs. E. J. Pur-
year
(4) Nancy Kather-
ine m.
ist.
Wm. M. Mitch-
ell
2d.
John M.
Walker
William H. m.
Laura Jones
Olivia M. m.
Wm. Waggoner
Lottie B.
Lether C.
Millie A.
Mary L.
James D.
Henry P. m.
1st. Sarah Ander-
son
2d. Mattie Ander-
son
Eddie Lee, d.
Wm. Allie m.
Lucille Wheat
Mattie Lou m.
Frank Luther
Mollie Belle, d.
Dommie Pearl m.
Jack McAllister
John Leroy, d.
Myrtle Mckindree
m.
^ Wm. W. Freeman
Albert Dudley
Lance D.
Mary Elizabeth
Charles
Wm. Mckindree
Herbert Scott, d.
Henry Hamilton
Marie
Robert Alton
Nannie Aleen
Myrtie May
Lorine
Minnie Lee
Shirley
Raymond
Horace
Mitchell
Myrtie Bernice
Anice
Charley Lucille
Gladys Love
J Wm. Macon
I Arnica Lee
L Mattie Aleen
( Willie Pipkin
■J Thelma
274
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Lucinda V.
Holmes
(Continued)
(5) Presley Dud-
ley m.
Josephine
Freeman
John Gray Vaw-
ter m. Eliza-
beth Stewart
Catherine E.
Vawter m.
Spottswood K.
Smith
(6) Lucinda C. m.
James T. Amos
(7) George W., d.
(i) Cornelius L.
(2) Jane, d.
(3) Alexander
Stewart, d.
(4) Elliott Gray, d.
(5) John Gray m.
Mary L. Helper
(6)
William B., d.
Lula E. m.
W. J. Pritchard
Henry B.
Annie m.
Samuel Redden
Dudley
Lula E. m.
W. A. Barker
Margaret B. m.
VV. P. TuUis
Eliza M. m.
J. J. Greer
William A. m.
Clara Gallaher
Perry H.
Cora M.
Lenna P.
\ Elizi
( Lilli
zabeth Helper
an Gray
AnnaElizabeth
m. Myron E.
Barnes
^ (7) Benjamin S.
(i) Eliza B. m.
JohnW. Hobson
(2) Martha A. m.
J.W.Williamson
(3) John V. m.
Catherine P.
Oakes
(4) Burnley Duke
m. Moilie
McLaughlin
(5) Spottswood G.
m. Beulah
Belle Grant
(6) L. E., d. s.
(7) Moilie W. ra.
R. H. Moody
Kenneth B.
Ladie Hobson
Seven children
No children
Ada Burnley m.
Wm. H. Sims
George Keland
Mattie Emmett
Mary Catherine, d.
Vivian Minor m.
Alice Lane
Richard Ricks
Basil Duke, d.
Mattie W. m.
J.D. Clark
James S. m.
Edna Russell
Moilie C. m.
Annie Gray, d.
Daniel C.
Wm. Rudy
Harry Lee, d.
Jessie
Freeman
Leroy A.
Lola B.
Mildred J.
Richard Raymond
Hugh Graeme
Elliott Minor
Charles S.
Son (unnamed)
Annie Gray
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
2/5
9. Nancy Vawter
m. James Gatlin
(i) Virginia m.
ist.
Geo. V. Allen
2d.
J. West Jones
(2) Sarah S. m.
1st.
Geo.W. Carrell
2d.
Chas. Amback
(3) Kate L. m.
H. T. Fitzhugh i Harry F
(4) Nancy E. m.
DwightR. Bat-
tey
(5) Sina E. m.
Aaron Pickard
Clarence H.
Faye Pearl
Mack A.
Carrell C.
Blanche A. in.
Virgil L. Snyder
Alvin G.
( An
( Gr:
na Fern
race Myrtle
Ross
(6) JephthaD. m. Lake E., d.
MattieDunn i ^^^^""^
Faye
Charles
' Horace Dwight m.
Margarette
Caldwell
Grace Margarette
ro.
Jacob N. Kanoff i
Frank Gatlin m.
Alice M. Bratton
Charles J. m.
Zella M. Newton
Robert Rush m.
Bertha Harvey
Ralph J. m, Mae
Marian Crafts
. George V.
I Harry A.
Myrtle m.
John C. Pierce
Lake E.
^ Genevieve Hope
Roy W. m.
Hattie South
Edgar J.
Gordon D.
Gertrude Alice
Eythel Fern
Hazel Hester
Geo. William
Harold F.
J. Wilson
John Homer
Myrtle Grace
George William
Frank Bratton
Georgia Grace
Grace Margarette
{ Elin
( Mari
or Shirley
arian
Hallie
( Waldo
I Floyd!
276
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
9. Nancy (Vawter)
Gatlin
(Continued)
f Ray R.
(7) MargaretM.m. I James D.
Morton R. Gib- ,| Fred A.
bens Laura lone
I Vawter Morton
(8) Mary C. m.
John A. Cole-
man
(9) Emma J. m.
ist. Frank B.
George
2d. Everett
De Garm
•1
Clayton Carrell m.
Catherine L.
Cross
Dwight Leonidas,
d.
Shirley Vawter
Ollie Vawter
Max B.
James Ralph
II
ELLIOTT VAWTER
Elliott Vawter, son of Philemon and Anna Vawter, was born
July 5, 1782; married October 11, 1804, to Anna Gray, who was
born April 3, 1783, and died July 26, 1856. Elliott Vawter died
March 28, 1863. He was a farmer and lived on Spring Creek,
in Todd county, Kentucky.
Children : Frances, Presley, Jephtha D., Dudley, Sabrina, Lu-
cinda, John Gray, Catherine E. and Nancy.
Frances Vawter.
Frances, daughter of Elliott and Anna (Gray) Vawter, was
born July 26, 1805 ; died young.
Presley Vawter.
Presley, son of Elliott and Anna (Gray) Vawter, was born
June 21, 1807, in Gallatin county, Kentucky; married, first, in
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 2"]^
Todd county, Kentucky, October 4, 1831, to Elenor Floyd, who
was born November 11, 1812, and died in Bond county, Illinois,
June 5, 1844.
Children :
(i) Elizabeth A., daughter of Presley and Elenor (Floyd)
Vawter, was born in Todd county, Kentucky, October 25, 1832;
married December 21, 1853, to Jefferson Fruit, who was born
near Edwardsville, Illinois, March 30, 1821, and died at his home
at Fruit Station, Illinois, February 25, 1891. Elizabeth (Vaw-
ter) Fruit died July 27, 1872.
Children :
a. Mary Eleanor Fruit was born November 30, 1854, near
Edwardsville, Illinois, at Fruit Station; married August 17,
1875, to Jefferson Michael Doubt, a farmer living near Have-
lock, Nebraska. They have no children.
h. Nancy Emily Fruit Avas born at Fruit Station, Illinois,
March 29, 1856; married November 12, 1878, to Abram Isaacs,
a farmer, who was born in Macoupin county, Illinois, October 4,
1 85 1. They live near Gillespie, Illinois.
Children :
(a) Thomas Edmund Isaacs, born August 18, 1880.
(b) Alfred Abram Isaacs, born April 22, 1884.
(c) Walter Fruit Isaacs, born July 15, 1886.
c. Edmund Presley Fruit was born at Fruit Station, Illinois,
April 13, 1858; married November 15, 1880, to Sallie Mocroft,
who was born in Henry county, Illinois, December 27, 1858.
Edmund P. Fruit is a farmer living near Waverly, Nebraska.
One child, Rhoda Elizabeth Fruit, was born December 19,
1883.
d. Logan Brown Fruit was born at Fruit Station, Illinois,
March 29, i860; married April 4, 1888, to Jessie Morrison, who
was born near Edwardsville, Illinois, March 18, 1858. Logan
Fruit is a salesman in a grocery and lives in Decatur, Illinois.
Children :
(a) Allen Jefferson Fruit, born at Fruit Station January 22,
1891.
(b) Bessie Fruit, born at Fruit Station December 13, 1893.
2/8 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
e. Walter Elliott Fruit was born at Fruit Station, Illinois,
November 9, 1862; married June 28, 1893, to Ellen Elizabeth
Grossman, of Edwardsville, Illinois. Walter E. Fruit is a phy-
sician and surgeon, making a specialty of diseases of children.
He lives at 4647 Indiana Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. One child,
Julian Elliott, was born April 28, 1899, in Chicago.
(2) Nancy E., daughter of Presley G. and Elenor (Floyd)
Vawter, was born in Bond county, Illinois, April 11, 1834; mar-
ried Spencer M. Goodson. They live on a farm near Greenville,
Illinois.
Children : Ellen, married Augustus Hawley, and lives near
Greenville, Illinois; Addie, Alice, Hattie, Orson, Thomas and
Harry, all of whom are married.
(3) John E., son of Presley G. and Elenor (Floyd) Vawter,
was born in Bond county, Illinois, February 19, 1838; married
at Webb City, Missouri, June 26, 1882, to Kittie C Radway, who
was born in Brooklyn, New York, June 22, i860; lives at San
Francisco, California. He is a traveling salesman for the Ozo-
moru Chemical Company of Omaha, Nebraska.
Presley G. Vawter was married, second, to Margaret Y. Mc-
Adams, April 11, 1849. Margaret (McAdams) Vawter was
born March 8, 1818; died June 4, 1863, in Bond county, Illinois.
Children of Presley G. and Margaret (McAdams) Vawter
were Ophelia G., Charles A., and Margaret Luella.
(i) Ophelia G., daughter of Presley G. and Margaret (Mc-
Adams) Vawter, was born in Bond county, Illinois, December
22, 1852; married September 4, 1873, to James R. Hunter, lives
at Winfield, Kansas.
Children :
a. Ollie M. Hunter, born in Bond county, Illinois, June 13,
1876.
b. Mary E. Hunter, born in Crawford county, Kansas, April
14, 1887.
(2) Charles A., son of Presley G. and Margaret (McAdams)
Vawter, was born in Bond county, Illinois, April 21, 1858; mar-
ried to Eva G. Saylor at Newton, Kansas, July 8, 1886; acci-
dentally killed at Denver, Colorado. Eva (Saylor) Vawter was
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 2/9
born in Jackson, Ohio, May 23, 1863. She Hves in Denver,
Colorado.
Children :
a. Ethel Vawter, born in Newton, Kansas, August i, 1887.
b. Cornelius L. Vawter, born in Pueblo, Colorado, November
19, 1892.
c. John Earl Vawter, born in Denver, Colorado, April 7,
1897.
(3) Margaret Luella, daughter of Presley G. and Margaret
(McAdams) Vawter, was born in Bond county, Illinois, June
22, 1862; married near McCune, Kansas, September 16, 1886,
to Samuel Welch ; lives at McCune, Kansas. Samuel Welch, son
of Samuel and Mary M. Welch, was born in Plain view, Mac-
coupin county, Illinois, February 10, 1856. Is engaged in the
mercantile business.
Children :
a. Frank J. Welch, born in Crawford county, Kansas, No-
vember 4, 1887.
b. Nellie F. Welch, born in Cherokee county, Kansas, Feb-
ruary 13, 1897.
c. Charles V. Welch, born at Edna, Kansas, September 8,
1901.
d. Margaret R. Welch, born at McCune, Kansas, April 16,
1904.
Presley G. Vawter was married, third, to Sarah E. Hamilton.
March 2, 1864. Sarah E. Hamilton was born October 14, 1831,
in Tennessee; lives with her daughter in Edna, Kansas.
Presley G. Vawter died of heart failure at his home near Mc-
Cune, Kansas, January 28, 1889.
Children of Presley G. and Sarah (Hamilton) Vawter were
Philip S., Sarah Belle, Presley G. and William W.
(i) Philip S., son of Presley G. and Sarah (Hamilton)
Vawter, was born in Bond county, Illinois, November 3, 1865 :
married at McCune, Kansas, November 12, 1893. to Minrtie
L. Bevans, who was born at Marietta, Fulton county, Illinois.
Philip S. Vawter is engaged in the furniture and undertaking
business.
28o THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Children :
a. Blanche B. Vawter, born at McCune, Kansas, August i,
1895.
b. George B. Vawter, born at McCune, Kansas, December
30, 19CX).
(2) Sarah Belle, daughter of Presley G. and Sarah (Hamil-
ton) Vawter, was born in Bond county, Illinois, January 2,
1869; married June 3, 1891, at McCune, Kansas, to Robert H.
Welch; lives at Edna, Kansas.
Robert H. Welch is in the furniture and undertaking business.
Children :
a. Clarence V. Welch, born at McCune, Kansas, April 30,
1892.
h. Mary E. Welch, born at McCune, Kansas, July 6, 1894.
c. Grace B. Welch, born at McCune, Kansas, November 10,
1896.
(I. Robert G. Welch, born at Edna, Kansas, April 23, 1900.
e. William O. Welch, born at Edna, Kansas, April 6, 1904.
(3) Presley G., son of Presley G. and Sarah (Hamilton)
Vawter, was born in Bond county, Illinois, June 7, 1870; married
Emily V. Gambill, March 14, 1894; lives on a farm near McCune,
Kansas. His wife was born in Robinson county, Tennessee, Jan-
uary 6, 1873.
Children :
a. Rufus L. Vawter, born near McCune, Kansas, February
II, 1895.
b. Ruth E. Vawter, born near McCune, Kansas, April i,
1896.
c. Fern G. Vawter, born near McCune, Kansas, February 2,
1898.
d. Fane F. Vawter, born near McCune, Kansas, September
13, 1900.
c. Raymond G. Vawter, born near McCune, Kansas, Octo-
ber 9, 1903.
(4) William W., son of Presley G. and Sarah (Hamilton)
Vawter, was born in Bond county, Illinois, July 4, 1875; died
in McCune, Kansas, November 26, 1891.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 281
Jephtha D. Vawter
Jephtha D., son of Elliott and Anna (Gray) Vawter, was born
July 18, 1809, in Todd county, Kentucky, and lived there until
1846 or 1847, when he moved to Tazewell county, Illinois, on a
farm in the Mackanaw valley. He remained there until the
spring of 1868, when he moved to Shawnee county, Kansas, and
settled on Wakarusa Creek, where he engaged in farming and
stock raising until 1892. He then retired from business and
moved to Topeka, Kansas, where he died October 13, 1894. At
his death Jephtha Vawter gave to each of his eleven children three
hundred acres of land or the equivalent thereof. He was kind
to the poor and always helpful where there were energy and need.
Jephtha Vawter was married, first, June 14, 1832, to Sarah
Modised Foster, daughter of John and Elizabeth Foster, who
was born June 9, 181 5, and died December 18, 1883. The chil-
dren of Jephtha and Sarah (Foster) Vawter were John Washing-
ton, Benjamin F., Mary Ann, Henry Clay, Lucinda Caroline,
Louise Ellen, Nancy Tandy, Martha Celestia, James Elliott,
Sarah Jane, Harriet Elizabeth, Sabrina Katherine and William
Jephtha.
Jephtha Vawter was married, second, July 25, 1884, to Louisa
K. Miller, daughter of Gilbert and Rebecca Miller, wdio was born
December 13, 1850, at Absecon, New Jersey. They had one
child, Clarence Dudley, who was born September 30, 1885.
The widow of Jephtha Vawter has since married a Mr. Mills,
and is now living in Manhattan, Kansas, where her son is at-
tending college. Their home is in Topeka, Kansas.
Children of Jephtha and Sarah (Foster) Vawter:
(i) John Washington Vawter, son of Jephtha D. and Sarah
(Foster) Vawter, was born July 5, 1833; married, first, Decem-
ber 31, 1857, to Louisa Chestnut, who was born February 7,
1834, and died February 18, 1867. Their children were Samuel
Dudley, William David, Florence Maria and Eliza Jane.
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John Washington Vawter was married, second, March 19,
1868, to Martha Ellen Hess, who died September 30, 1873. Their
children were Jephtha Levi, Fred Clay.
John Washington Vawter was married, third, February 21,
1876, to Sarepta Hamilton. No children. Mr. Vawter is a re-
tired farmer, living in Ulysses, Nebraska.
Children :
a. Samuel Dudley, son of John Washington and Louisa
(Chestnut) Vawter, was born November 7, 1858. He gradu-
ated at Eureka College in the class of '85 and for about seven
years served as pastor in the Christian Church. During the
sessions of 1892- 1894 he taught mathematics in the Christian
University at Canton, Missouri, and for two years thereafter in
Eureka College, Eureka, Illinois. On account of poor health he
retired to a farm, where he now lives at Saunemin, Illinois, and
preaches occasionally.
Samuel D. Vawter was married January 27, 1887, to Minnie
M. Harris, who was born on the farm where they now live. They
have no children.
h. William David, son of John W. and Louisa (Chestnut)
Vawter, was born in Tazewell county, Illinois, January 17, 1862 ;
married September i, 1883, to Ivie K. McCullough, who was
born in McLean county, Illinois, April 6, 1865. David Vawter
is employed in the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe shops in To-
peka, Kansas, as car repairer.
Children of William David and Ivie (McCullough) Vawter:
(a) Myrtle Lowell, born February 2y, 1887.
(b) Goldie Call, born August 22, 1890.
c. Florence Maria, daughter of John W. and Louisa (Chest-
nut) Vawter, was born near Tremont, Illinois, April 5, 1864;
married January 2, 1894, to William Routh, a farmer, who was
born in Warren county, Illinois, March 26, 1861. They live in
Ulysses, Nebraska.
Children :
(a) Evan V. Routh, born August 31, 1902.
(b) Clifford Routh, born November 6, 1904.
d. Eliza Jane, daughter of John W. and Louisa (Chestnut)
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 283
Vawter, was born January i6. 1867. Is a nurse in the Clarkson
Hospital, Omaha. Nebraska.
e. Jephtha Levi, son of John W. and Martha (Hess) Vawter,
was born December 16. 1869; married February 25, 1892. to
Edith Henning, who was born December 8, 1870, in Yates town-
ship, McLean county. Ilhnois. J. L. Vawter is a farmer, living
near Lexington. Illinois.
Children :
(a) Jessie Vawter. born April 25, 1893, in Yates township,
McLean count}^, Illinois.
/. Fred Clay, son of John W. and Martha (Hess) Vawter,
was born March 22. 1872; married Annie Brigham ; is a farmer
living near Ulysses, Nebraska.
Children : Walter Fred and Wayne.
(2) Benjamin Franklin Vawter, son of Jephtha D. and
Sarah (Foster) Vawter, was born February 10, 1835; married
September 29, 1856, to Mary E. Bright. Is a retired farmer liv-
ing in Wakarusa, Kansas.
Children :
a. Bethena Ellen, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Bright)
Vawter, v.-as born December 16, 1857; married Joseph Robinson,
Auburn, Kansas.
Children : Arthur, Earl. Leonard and several others.
h. Amy Catherine, daughter of Benjamin and Mary
(Bright) Vawter, was born August 15, 1859; married Parker
Perry, a farmer and stock trader of Wakarusa, Kansas.
Children : Wayland and Junia.
c. Charles Henry, son of Benjamin F. and ]\Iary (Bright)
Vawter, born October 28, 1861 ; married Katherine Ecker,
Wakarusa, Kansas. Farmer.
Children : Laura, Francis, Helen, Bertha and baby.
(3) Mary Ann Elizabeth, daughter of Jephtha D. and Sarah
(Foster) Vawter, was born May 13, 1836; died September 5,
185 1.
(4) Henry Clay Vawter, son of Jephtha D. and Sarah (Fos-
ter) Vawter, was born in Todd county, Kentucky, April 4, 1838;
married in Tazewell county, Illinois, September 7, 1865, to Sarah
284 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Lavina Davies, who was born November 20, 1840, in Tazewell
county. Illinois, and died November 27, 1885.
Children :
o. Olive lona, daughter of Henry Clay and Sarah L. Vawter,
was born June 30, 1866 ; married November 24, 1887, to Clarence
Smith, a farmer and stock trader.
b. Annie, daughter of Henry C. and Sarah (Davies) Vaw-
ter, born February 5, 1868; died August 16, 1868.
c. Clarence, son of Henry C. and Sarah (Davies) Vawter,
born July 8, 1869; died August 5, 1870.
d. Lucy, daughter of Henry C. and Sarah (Davies) Vawter,
born July 16, 1871 ; died July 29, 1871.
e. Sarah Lavina, daughter of Henry C. and Sarah (Davies)
Vawter, was born September 29. 1875.
/. Lewis Henry, son of Henry C. and Sarah (Davies) Vaw-
ter, was born October 12, 1877; married November 18, 1903, to
Ada Elizabeth Wilson. Lewis H. Vawter is a farmer.
Henry Clay Vawter married, second, Lizzie R. Davis, on
September 7, 1887. Lizzie (Davis) Vawter died August 22,
1897.
Henry C. Vawter is a farmer, living in Tremont, Illinois.
(5) Lucinda Caroline Vawter, daughter of Jephtha D. and
Sarah (Foster) Vawter, was born May 17, 1839; married Febru-
ary 29, i860, to Charles Walter Hinman. a farmer, who was
born August 18, 1829, and died May 5, 1899.
Children :
a. Henry Vawter Hinman, born December 9, i860; died
June 4, 1 87 1.
b. Mary Ellen Hinman. born January 25, 1863; married to
William Gillan, February i, 1882. They have ten children;
Walter Leigh. Nina May. Charles Ross, Mabel Augusta, Harry
Laurence, Laura Maud, Lewis Elbert, Ruth Caroline, Richard
Hugh and Nellie Margaret.
William Gillan is a farmer, living in Mackinaw. Illinois.
c. Augusta Orissa Hinman was born February 13, 1866;
married to James Gillan, February 21, 1894. Children: Edna
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 285
May, born January 24, 1896; Walter Hinman, born July 25,
1900; Margaret, born October 7. 1903.
James Gillan is a drayman of Mackinaw, Illinois.
d. Nina Jane Hinman, born February 15, 1869; died August
21, 1877.
c. Eva May Hinman, born June 10, 187 1. Is a teacher of
languages in the college in Bluff ton, Ohio.
/. Richard Franklin Hinman, born November 10, 1874; mar-
ried September 26, 1899, to Mary Leonard, youngest daughter
of Thomas and Elizabeth Leonard. Is a lawyer of Tremont, Illi-
nois.
Mrs. L. C. Hinman lives in Mackinaw, Tazewell county, Illi-
nois.
(6) Louisa Ellen, daughter of Jephtha D. and Sarah (Foster)
Vawter, was born December 19, 1840; married to W. Jesse Mc-
Colm, August 16, 1 87 1. Mr. McColm is a farmer, living in
Bucklin. Ford county, Kansas.
Children :
a. George Elmer McColm, born October 19, 1872.
b. Viola Olivia McColm, born March 23, 1875.
(7) Nancy Tandy, daughter of Jephtha D. and Sarah (Fos-
ter) Vawter, was born March 10, 1843 ; died October i, 1846.
(8) Martha Celestia Vawter, daughter of Jephtha D. and
Sarah (Foster) Vawter, was born in Todd county, Kentucky,
October 10, 1844; married December 26, 1869, to Alexander
Waltmire at Waveland, Shawnee county, Kansas, by Rev. A. J.
Hopkins. Alexander Waltmire was born near Antioch, Taze-
well county, Illinois, and died October 21, 1873.
Children :
a. Ernest Everett Waltmire, born February 16, 1871, at
Waveland, Illinois; married April 18, 1901, to Dora Dazell.
They live in Kansas City. No children.
h. Otis Vernon Waltmire, born February 25, 1873, near
Auburn, Shawnee county, Kansas; died February 15, 1880, near
Tremont, Tazew^ell county, Illinois.
Martha (Vawter) Waltmire w^as married, second, to Richard
J. Simpson at Waveland, Shawnee county, Kansas, March 28,
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THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
1 88 1, by Rev. George Frank Walker. Richard J. Simpson was
born November 26, 1839, in Kent county, Delaware. He was a
soldier in the Civil War, receiving three honorable discharges.
He was enrolled November 22, 1862, to serve nine months in
Company H, Sixth Regiment, Delaware Volunteer Infantry ; en-
rolled second, July 13, 1864, to serve thirty days in Company I,
Seventh Regiment, Delaware Infantry; enrolled third, in Com-
pany E, Ninth Regiment, Delaware Infantry, September 7, 1864,
to serve one hundred days. He has never asked for nor wanted a
pension. Is a farmer, living near Carbondale, Missouri.
Children :
a. Josephine Ellen Simpson, born in Fountain, Osage county,
Kansas, January 9, 1882.
b. Vernon Oak Simpson, born in Fountain, Kansas, Decem-
ber 19, 1885.
(9) James Elliott, son of Jephtha D. and Sarah (Foster)
Vawter, was born in Todd county, February 21, 1847; married
February 17, 1874, at Tremont, Illinois, to Mary E. Huxtable,
who was born at Deer Creek, Illinois, February 26, 1855.
James E. Vawter died at Fountain, Kansas, June 6, 1899.
Children :
a. Anna Belle, daughter of James E. and Mary (Huxtable)
Vawter, was born June 28, 1879; died September 28, 1879.
b. Sarah Ellen, daughter of James E. and Mary (Huxtable)
Vawter, was born March 11, 1881 ; married August 16, 1899, to
F. A. Newman in Topeka, Kansas. Children : An infant, bom
August 15, 1900; died September 7, 1900, and Harold Anson
Newman, who was born September 19, 1901.
c. George William, son of James E. and Mary (Huxtable)
Vawter, was born October 21, 1885.
d. Leonard Franklin, son of James E. and Mary (Huxtable)
Vawter, was born December 31, 1889.
e. Stella May, daughter of James E. and Mary (Huxtable)
Vawter, was born June 16, 1887; died November i, 1890.
/. Leslie Wayne, son of James E. and Mary (Huxtable)
Vawter, was born August 4, 1894.
Mrs. Mary Vawter and family live near Carbondale, Kansas.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 287
( 10) Sarah Jane, daughter of Jephtha D. and Sarah (Foster)
Vawter, born August 15, 1849; died March 11, 1865.
(11) Harriet Ehzabeth, daughter of Jephtha D. and Sarah
(Foster) Vawter, was born near Tremont, Ilhnois, July 20,
185 1 ; married June 14, 1881, to Lewis A. Mead, who was born
March 4, 185 1, in Ithaca, New York.
Children of Lewis A. and Harriet (Vawter) Mead:
a. Nina Modised Mead, born April 18, 1882.
b. Jephtha Dudley Mead, born January 25, 1888; died April
2, 1888.
c. Mina Myrtle Mead, born May 15, 1889.
d. Elsie May Alead, born October 29, 1890.
e. Carl Owen Mead, born June 16, 1894.
The two eldest children were born in Waveland, Shawnee
county, Kansas. The others were born in Osage county, in a
section of country known as Fountain Ridge. The postoffice
was kept at a farm house and was known as Fountain Postoffice.
The office is now changed to Carbondale, Kansas, Rural Route
No. I, which is the address of Mr. and Mrs. Mead and their
children.
(12) Sabrina Katherine, daughter of Jephtha D. and Sarah
(Foster) Vawter, was born April 8, 1855; married October 7,
1873, to M. Franklin Stout, a farmer of Wakarusa, Kansas.
Children of M. Franklin and Sabrina (Vawter) Stout:
a. Effie May Stout, born January 18, 1878; married October
29, 1902, to Lewis G. Stahl, who was born June 16, 1876. Lewis
G. Stahl is manager of the Jonathan Thomas Lumber Company
at Wakarusa, Kansas.
b. Herbert Oscar Stout, born May 12, 1880; married Janu-
ary 23, 1900, to Katherine D. Roberts, who was born November
18, 1879. Herbert Stout is a farmer,
c. Laura Mabel Stout, born April 20, 1883.
( 13) William Jephtha, son of Jephtha D. and Sarah (Foster)
Vawter, was born near Tremont, Tazewell county, Illinois, Sep-
tember 15, 1858. He lived there until about ten years of age,
when his father moved to Shawnee county, Kansas, in the spring
of 1868, buying a farm on Wakarusa Creek. He has lived the
288 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
greater part of his life on a farm, but is at present engaged as
a carpenter in Topeka, Kansas, in order to give his children the
advantage of the Topeka schools.
William Jephtha Vawter was married first on December 22,
1882, to Lydia Yarrington, who was born March 17, 1862, in
Shawnee county, Kansas, near Wakarusa Station. She died at
Lamy Junction, New Mexico, December 13, 1886.
Children of William Jephtha and Lydia (Yarrington) Vawter
\vere :
a. Arlen O. Vawter, born March 29, 1883. Lives in Wyo-
ming.
h. Ice Reta Vawter, born February 6, 1885 ; died October 15,
1885.
William Jephtha Vawter married, second, on March 12, 1889,
Mary E. Zane, who was born May 29, 1858, at Farmersburg,
Sullivan county, Indiana.
Children of William Jephtha and Mary (Zane) Vawter:
a. Alfred Z. Vawter, born September 23, 1892.
h. Veva J. Vawter, born October 18, 1894.
4
Dudley Vawter-
Dudley, son of Elliott and Anna (Gray) Vawter, was born
May 18, 181 2; died young.
5
Sabrina (Vawter) Tutt
Sabrina Vawter, daughter of Elliott and Anna (Gray)
Vawter, was born in Todd county, Kentucky, January 9, 181 5;
married in June, 1830, to Lewis Tutt, who was born in Halifax,
Virginia, in 1804, and died March 4, 1874. Sabrina (Vawter)
Tutt died August 18, 1 88 1. ' ,^
Children: ^yx^^ --^ ..aa4a(\ JAA^^^
( 1 ) Charles L. Tutt married Mary Duke ; died.
(2) George Washington Tutt, born March 18, 1833; died.
(3) John Presley Tutt, born April 9, 1834; married Mariah
Donley; died.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 289
(4) David Vawter Tutt, born December lo, 1835 ; died.
(5) James Elliott Tutt was born January 18, 1837, in Hali-
fax county, Virginia. His father moved when he was a small
boy to Kentucky and settled in Todd county, near his grand-
father, Elliott Vawter, and on the adjoining farm to Jefferson
Davis, who afterward became president of the Confederacy.
James Elliott Vawter served in the Confederate army during
the entire Civil War, first under General Breckenridge, and then
under General Forest. He was wounded at Missionary Ridge.
He was married December 26, 1864, to Margaret Lucy Powell
of Virginia, who was born December 30, 1843.
Children :
a. Alice, born October 14, 1865 ; died January, 1866.
b. James, born and died April 18, 1867.
c. Myra, born June 2, 1868; died June 16, 1868.
d. James Leonard, born July 30, 1870; married February
7, 1904, to Emily West, who was born in 1871. J. L. Tutt is a
painter, living in Cadiz, Kentucky.
e. Ben Floyd, born April 9, 1876; married May 18, 1902, to
Florence West. They have one child, Lawrence William, born
February 12, 1904. B. F. Tutt is a painter, living in Cadiz, Ken-
tucky.
/. Annie Hope, born and died August 18, 1881.
(6) Sarah Catherine Tutt, daughter of Lewis and Sabrina
(Vawter) Tutt, was born at the old Vawter residence on Spring
Creek in Todd county, Kentucky, January 8, 1838; married De-
cember 28, 1853, to William Henry Garden, who was born Octo-
ber 2, 1828, in Goochland county, Virginia. They live in View.
Kentucky.
Children :
a. Alice Garden, born October 12, 1854; married September
24, 1877, to George M. Gish; died October 19, 1892. George
Gish is a mechanic, living in Memphis, Tennessee.
Children :
(a) Laura Gish, born July 6, 1878.
(b) Jacob Gish, born July 5, 1881.
b. James Lewis Garden, born December 31, 1855; married
290 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
December 20, 1883, to Rebecca Guthrie. Is a farmer living near
View, Kentucky.
Children :
(a) Corinne Garden, born February 2;^, 1886.
(b) Earl Garden, born June 23, 1888.
(c) Hansel Garden, born March 15, 1892.
(d) Hebren Garden, born March 20, 1897.
(e) Marguerite Garden, born June 15, 1904.
c. Mary Ellen Garden, born June 23, 1858; married Novem-
ber 28, 1878, to John F. Kirk, manager for a tobacco house in
Marion, Kentucky.
d. John Henry Garden, born February 12, i860; married
December 28, 1882, to Netta Binkley, Is a farmer living near
View, Kentucky.
Children :
(a) Gertrude Garden, born July 6, 1884.
(b) Loto Garden, born June 23, 1887.
(c) James Garden, born October 21, 1889.
(d) Ruth Garden, born April 12, 1893.
e. May Garden, born March 11, 1863; married September
20, 1878, to Samuel Henson.
Children :
(a) Pearl Henson, born August 18, 1882.
(b) Ed Henson, born July 2t,, 1884.
May (Garden) Henson was married, second, to Watson Rice,
a farmer, living near Marion, Kentucky.
Children :
(a) William Henry Rice, born September 21, 1894.
(b) Ollie James Rice, born September 9, 1896.
(c) Crawford Rice, born June 5, 1898.
(d) Sarah Catherine Rice, born August 2, 1902.
(e) Allen D. Rice, born August i, 1904.
/. Ida Ellonia Garden, born February 3, 1866; married June
II, 1884, to Quint Conger, a live-stock dealer of Kelsey, Ken-
tucky.
Children :
(a) Lena Conger, born August 31, 1885.
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THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 29 1
(b) Guy Conger, born July 23. 1887.
(c) Beulah Conger, born January 8, 1889.
(d) Vera Conger, born May 10, 1897.
g. Azilee Carden, born February 11, 1868; married February
8, 1888, to George Watson, who is in the railroad business in
Paducah, Kentucky.
Children :
(a) Etwell Watson, born November 28, 1888.
(b) Vernon Watson, born February 10, 1890.
(c) Sallie May Watson, born May 10, 1891.
(d) Watson, born March 10, 1894.
(e) George Watson, born July 15, 1902.
h. Willie Carden, born October 24, 1870; married June 21,
1893, to Jesse Binkley, a farmer, living near View, Kentucky.
Children :
(a) Virgil Binkley, born March 29, 1894.
(b) Harry Binkley, born December i, 1896.
(c) Annie Ree Binkley, born January 2, 1903.
i. Rollie Carden, born December 20, 1872; married October
13, 1897, to Sallie Brown. Is a farmer, living near View, Ken-
tucky.
Children :
(a) Grace Carden, born September 14, 1900.
(b) Lee Carden, born September 6, 1902.
j. Jesse Buford Carden, born December 30, 1875; married
October 16, 1901, to Mary Hawkins. Is a farmer, living near
View, Kentucky.
Children :
(a) Clara May Carden, born August 18, 1902.
k. Clarence Alpheus Carden, born April 14, 1877. Has a
hotel at New Brisrhton, Minnesota. \ . ;•, 'V ,v,. . v ^ -
(7) Henry Day Tutt was born in Providence, Montgomery
county, Tennessee, August 25, 1842; married November 10,
1864, to Mary A. Wood, who was born in Woodlawn, Mont-
gomery county, Tennessee, December 14, 1848. H. D. Tutt is
a miller, living at Bumpus Mills, Tennessee.
292 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Children :
a. Lena S. Tutt, born December 24, 1865.
b. Frank M. Tutt, born May 2, 1869.
c. Carrie L. Tutt, born September 18, 1870.
d. John L. Tutt, born February 15, 1874.
e. Arthur C. Tutt, born December 20, 1876.
/. George D. Tutt, born January 4, 1879.
g, Otis Floyd Tutt, born July 15, 1881.
h. Horace Russell Tutt, born April 18, 1884.
i. Mamie A. Tutt, born March 2, 1889.
y. Henry M. Tutt, born June 16, 1890.
(8) Lucy Annie Virginia Tutt was born January 2, 1845,
in Montgomery county, Tennessee; married December 16, 1887,
to Andrew Jackson Whitaker, a wheelwright, who was born
March 12, 1840.
Children :
a. Mary Whitaker, born March 27, 1862; married October
7, 1880, to John Wesley Ford, carpenter, who was born January
2y, 1859. Lives in Wickliffe, Kentucky.
Children :
(a) William Dudley Ford, born August 11, 1881.
(b) Delia May Ford, born September 27,, 1885.
(c) Neppie Virginia Ford, born April 25, 1888.
(d) Mary Alice Ford, born March 27, 1891.
(e) Annie Asilee Ford, born December 27, 1894.
(f) Tripsley Dudley Ford, born August 29, 1898.
(g and h) Lorene and Corene, twins, born March 29, 1902,
Mrs. Virginia (Tutt) Whitaker was married, second, October
26, 1864, to William Stewart, who died May 19, 1896. Mrs.
Stewart lives at Wickliffe, Ballard county, Kentucky.
(9) Mary Ellen Tutt was born June 2;^, 1847; married a
Hodge; died.
(10) Benjamin F. Tutt, born May 2t,, 1849; married Miss
Farmer.
(11) Meredith D. Tutt was born in Trenton, Todd county
Kentucky, July 19, 1851; married October 20, 1870, to Virginia
Elizabeth Wood, who was born at Woodlawn, Montgomery
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county, Tennessee, March 12, 1855. Meredith Tntt is engaged
in the tobacco business in Clarksville, Tennessee.
Children :
a. Birdie May Tutt. born in Trenton, Kentucky, April 9,
1872; died December 21, 1880.
b. James E. Tutt, born in Woodlawn, Tennessee, February
2y, 1874; married March 20, 1902, to Lockey Gambreal, who
was born February 12, 1873. They have one child, Eugene
Noval Tutt, born August 26, . James E. Tutt is a carpenter
living in Alemphis, Tennessee.
c. Ida Bell Tutt, born in Trenton, Kentucky, October 11,
1876.
d. Robert L. Tutt, born in Trenton, Kentucky, August 28,
1879.
e. Oscar Elliott Tutt, born in Trenton, Kentucky, December
8, 1881.
/. Tommie Elizabeth Tutt, born in Trenton, Kentucky, De-
cember 21, 1885; married September 18, 1902, to Walter E.
Maynor, a carriage manufacturer, who was born September 6,
1871.
g. Benjamin Lee Tutt, born March 3, 1889, in Ellston, Ken-
tucky.
h. John Henry Tutt, born June 22, 1894, in Ellston, Ken-
tucky.
(12) Wyatt Tutt; died.
(13) Thomas Tutt, born October 26, 1855; died.
(14) Jephtha Tutt, born February 26, 1857; died.
(15 and 16) Jephtha Tutt and Jesse Tutt, twins, born Sep-
tember 10, 1859.
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LuciNDA (Vawter) Holmes
Lucinda Vawter, daughter of Elliott and Anna (Gray)
Vawter, was born July 28, 181 7, in Todd county, Kentucky;
married January i, 1843, in Todd county, Kentucky, to John
W. Holmes, who was born in Maysville, Kentucky, December
2y, 1 81 8, and died May 7, 1894, in Graves county, Kentucky.
294 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Liicinda (Vawter) Holmes died November 28, 1884. They
moved from Todd county, Kentucky, to Graves county in 1855.
Children :
(i) Jephtha Burnley Holmes, born June 8, 1844; died Sep-
tember 4, 1844.
(2) Henry Clay Holmes was born September 9, 1845 ^^
Todd county, Kentucky; married October 21, 1866, in Graves
county Kentucky, to Mary N. Brann.
Children :
a. Nancy C. Holmes, born July 18, 1867; died August 21,
1867.
b. Riley L. Holmes, born November i, 1868; died July 13,
1869.
Mary (Brann) Holmes, wife of H. C. Holmes, died April 16,
1869. Henry C. Holmes was married to Nancy I. Jones of
Weakly county, Tennessee, November 14, 1869.
Children :
a. Mary L. Holmes was born September 10, 1870; married
January 25, 1888, to William L. Oliver, of Graves county, Ken-
tucky.
Children :
(a) Mabel Oliver, born October 27, 1888.
(b) Henry Oliver, born February 19, 1891.
(c) Adolphus Oliver, born March 10, 1893.
(d) Ira Oliver, born November 13, 1896.
(e) Wendell Oliver, born May 31, 1902.
b. Martha F. Holmes, born May 15, 1872; died April 30,
1874.
c. John P. Holmes, born February 25, 1875. Is in the mer-
cantile business in Stubblefield, Kentucky.
d. IraE. Holmes, born April 11, 1877; married December
26, 1900, to Wayland Adams. They live in Graves county, Ken-
tucky, and have one child, Alton Mckindree Adams, who was
born June 11, 1904. gJ
e. Lucinda Holmes, born March 31, 1879; died September
25, 1897.
/. Henry Cornelius Holmes, born July 6, 1881 ; married May
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 295
24, 1903, to Tassie B. Moore. Is a farmer, living in Graves
county, Kentucky.
g. William E. Holmes, born July 24. 1883.
//. Nellie I. Holmes, born February 5, 1886.
/. Charles H. Holmes, born February 16. 1888.
(3) John Elliott Holmes, son of John W. and Lucinda
(Vavvter) Holmes, was born December 10, 1847; married, first,
October 31, 1869, to Mary E. Pitman, who died December 28,
1871.
John E. Holmes was married, second, January 5, 1873, to
Laura B. Hopkins, who died April 23, 1874.
John E. Holmes was married, third, September 15, 1875, to
Margaret E. Alexander, who died x\pril 18, 1891.
Children of John E. and Margaret (Alexander) Holmes:
a. William H. Holmes, born December 6, 1876; married
December 22, 1902, to Laura M. Jones. Is a farmer and stock
raiser of Wingo, Kentucky. One child. Lance D. Holmes, was
born February 20, 1903.
b. Olivia M. Holmes, born May 6, 1878; married December
26, 1900, to William W. Waggoner, who is a farmer and stock
raiser of Wingo, Kentucky.
Children :
(a) Mary Elizabeth Waggoner, born January 27, 1902.
(b) Charles Waggoner, born September 22, 1904.
c. Lottie B. Holmes, born October 22, 1881.
d. Lether C. Holmes, born August 21, 1886.
e. Millie A. Holmes, born September 15, 1888; died May 31,
1889.
/. Mary L. Holmes, born May 29, 1890.
John E. Holmes was married, fourth, October 12, 1892, to
Mrs. E. J. Puryear. They live near Wingo, Kentucky, where
Mr. Holmes is a farmer and stock raiser. They have one child,
James D. Holmes, who was born September 8, 1894.
(4) Nancy Katherine Holmes, daughter of John W. and
Lucinda (Vawter) Holmes, was born at Pryorsburg, Graves
county, Kentucky, November 10, 1849: married February 18,
296
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1866, to William Mckindree Mitchell, who was born in East
Tennessee, October 26, 1845, and died November 22, 1882.
Children :
a. Henry P. Mitchell, born in West Tennessee, December 13,
1866; married May 9, 1890, to Sarah R. Anderson, who was
born December 7, 1870, and died July 30, 1894.
Children :
(a) William Mckindree, born April 2, 1891.
(b) Herbert Scott, born March 15, 1894; died August 23,
1894.
Henry P. Mitchell was married, second, October 14, 1898, to
Mattie Anderson, who was born February 5, 1878. They live in
Ponchatoula, Louisiana, where H. P. Mitchell is cashier of the
Merchants' and Farmers' Bank.
Children :
(a) Henry Hamilton, born November 14, 1899.
(b) Marie, born April 3, 1902.
(c) Robert Alton, born August 9, 1904.
h. Eddie Lee Mitchell, born in West Tennessee, December
28, 1868; died October 16, 1869.
c. William Allie Mitchell, born in West Tennessee, Sep-
tember I, 1870; married February 17, 1897, to Lucille Wheat,
who was born at Perrysville, Kentucky, March 7, 1879. W. A.
Mitchell is in the government mail service at Wingo, Kentucky.
Children :
(a) Nannie Aleen, born November i, 1897; died October
22, 1899.
(b) Myrtie May, born April 25, 1899.'
(c) Lorine, born August 8, 1901.
(d) Minnie Lee, born January 2, 1903.
d. Mattie Lou Mitchell, born in Wingo, Kentucky, June 21,
1872; married February 6, 1889, to Frank Luther, a farmer, of
Wingo, Kentucky, who was born May 22, 1866.
Children :
(a) Shirley, born July 19, 1890.
(b) Raymond, born August 7, 1892.
(c) Horace, born December 20, 1894.
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THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 297
(d) Mitchell, born March 13, 1897.
(e) Myrtie Bernice, born May 16, 1899.
(f) Anice, born June 14, 1902.
(g) Charley Lucille, born September 19, 1904.
e. Mollie Bell Mitchell, born in Wingo, Kentucky, March
10, 1875; died October 2, 1877.
/. Dommie Pearl Mitchell, born in Wingo, Kentucky, July
11, 1877; married November 11, 1894, to Jack McAllister, a
farmer, of Wingo, Kentucky, who was born February i, 1870,
in Trigg county, Kentucky.
Children :
(a) Gladys Love, born December 7, 1895.
(b) William Macon, born March 18, 1898.
(c) Arnice Lee, born January 28, 1901.
(d) Mattie Aleen, born December 11, 1904.
g. John Leroy L. Mitchell, born in Wingo, Kentucky, March
17, 1880; died October 9, 1903.
//. Myrtie Mckindree Mitchell, born September 5, 1882; mar-
ried May 23, 1900, to William W. Freeman, who was born Janu-
ary 6, 1877, and died November 24, 1903. Mrs. Freeman lives
in Ponchatoula, Louisiana. i
Children :
(a) Willie Pipkin, born November 23, 1901.
(b) Thelma, born June 28, 1903.
Mrs. Nancy Katherine (Holmes) Mitchell was married, sec-
ond, August 24, 1884, to John M. Walker. One child, Albert
Dudley Walker, was born in Wingo, Kentucky, June 3, 1885.
Nancy K. Walker died January 17, 1897.
(5) Presley Dudley Holmes, son of John W. and Lucinda
(Vawter) Holmes, was born in Todd county, Kentucky, De-
cember 26, 1852. He went from Todd county, Kentucky to
Graves county, with his parents when about three years of age.
He was married November 19, 1873, to Josephine S. Freeman,
who was born in Davidson county. Tennessee, November 3,
1854, and moved with her parents to Graves county Kentucky,
when about twelve years of age. Presley D. Holmes is a farmer
living near Sedalia, Kentucky.
298 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Children :
a. William B. Holmes, born August 19, 1874; died Novem-
ber 28. 1874.
b. Lula E. Holmes, born July 28, 1876; married July 27,
1896, to W. J. Pritchard, a farmer, of Graves county, Kentucky,
who was born in 1873.
Children :
(a) William Rudy Pritchard, born July 12, 1897.
(b) Harry Lee Pritchard, born November 25, 1902; died
July 13, 1903.
c. Henry B. Holmes, born March 17, 1879. Lives in Stubble-
field, Kentucky.
d. Annie Holmes, born May 10, 1881 ; married November
18, 1900, to Samuel Redden, who was born in Dickson county,
Tennessee, in 1874 and is now a farmer of Graves county, Ken-
tucky.
Children :
(a) Jessie Redden, born March 8, 1902.
(b) Freeman Redden, born August 15, 1904.
e. John Dudley Holmes, born May 20, 1887.
(6) Lucinda Caroline Holmes, daughter of John W. and
Lucinda (Vawter) Holmes, was born February 29, 1856, in
Graves county, Kentucky ; married at Troy, Tennessee, December
30, 1872, to James Thomas Amos, a farmer of Wingo, Ken-
tucky, who was born in Hickman county, Kentucky, May 2,
1849. They live in Lockwood, Missouri.
Children :
a. Lula E. Amos was born October 3, 1874; married No-
vember 16, 1892, to W. A. Barker; died August 17. 1896, leav-
ing a son, Leroy A. Barker, who was born May 5, 1896. .
b. Margaret B. Amos was born August 28, 1877; married
February 23, 1902, to W. P. Tullis. They have one child, Lola
B. Tullis, who was born April 25, 1903.
c. Eliza M. Amos was born August 9, 1880; married March
17, 1 901, to J. J. Greer. They have one child, Mildred J. Greer,
who was born January 9, 1902.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 299
d. William A. Amos was born January 26, 1884; married
December 23, 1903, to Clara M. Gallaher.
c. Perry H. Amos, born July 28, 1887.
/. Cora M. Amos, born June 12. 1889.
g. Lenna P. Amos, born October 6, 1891.
(7) George W. Holmes, son of John W. and Lucinda
(Vawter) Holmes, v.-as born July 7, 1861 ; died June 9, 1893.
John W. Holmes was married, second, to Susan Brockman in
May, 1883.
7
John Gray Vawter
John Gray, son of Elliott and Anna (Gray) Vawter," was born
in Todd county, Kentucky, in 1819; married in Illinois, February
6, 185 1, to Elizabeth Stewart, who was born in Edinburg, Scot-
land, May 31, 1824. John Gray Vawter died May 9, 1877. His
wife, Elizabeth S. Vawter, lives in Rockford, Illinois.
Children :
(i) Cornelius Lansing, son of John Gray and Elizabeth
Vawter, v/as born in 185 1. Lives in San Francisco, but is now
in Unga, Alaska.
(2) Jane, daughter of John Gray and Elizabeth Vawter, was
born in 1854; died in 1858.
(3) Alexander Stewart, tvv'in, born in 1858; died December
13, 1858.
(4) Elliott Gray, twin, born in 1858; died December 20,
1858.
(5) John Gray, Jr., born at Wirterset, Madison county,
Iowa, December 3, 1859; married at Fort Benton, Montana,
December 3, 1883, to Mary Lincoln Helper, daughter of Henry
and Hannah Helper, who was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
April 17, 1865.
Children :
a. Elizabeth Helper Vawter, born at St. Paul, Minnesota,
October 28, 1885.
b. Lillian Gray Vawter, born at Minot, North Dakota,
August 8, 1887. .
300 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
(6) Anna Elizabeth, daughter of John Gray and Ehzabeth
Vawter, was born in 1864; married at Rockford, Ilhnois, Sep-
tember 29, 1886, to Myron E. Barnes, a vocahst and teacher of
music in Rockford, Ilhnois. Myron E. Barnes was born June
22, 1863, at Newberry, New York.
Children :
a. • Kenneth B. Barnes, born July 28, 1896.
(7) Benjamin Stewart, son of John Gray and Elizabeth
Vawter, was born in 1865. Lives in North Seattle, Washington.
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Catherine (Vawter) Smith
Catherine E., daughter of Elliott and Anna Gray Vawter, was
born in Todd county, Kentucky, May 31, 1822; married No-
vember 5, 1 84 1, to Spottswood K. Smith, a farmer, who was
born in Spottsylvania county, Virginia, December 14, 1800, and
died October 9, 1894, in Guthrie, Kentucky. Catherine (Vaw-
ter) Smith died October 27, 1900, in Guthrie, Kentucky.
Children of Spottswood and Catherine (Vawter) Smith:
(i) Eliza B. Smith was born September 29, 1842; married
John W. Hobson; died January 5, 1892. Miss Ladie Hobson,
of Denton, Texas, is a daughter.
(2) Martha A. Smith was born July 13, 1844; married Dr.
J. W. Williamson. Is living now in St. Louis with her daughter,
Mrs. M. L. Donlon.
Children :
a. Althea, died.
b. Eliza Miranda Williamson, born at Olmstead Station,
Logan county, Kentucky, October 14, 1864; married October 14,
1884, to Joseph I. Graham, who was born in Clarksville, Ten-
nessee, October 17, 1859. Joseph I. Graham is engaged in the
milling business in Columbia, Tennessee.
Children :
(a) Robert Lacy Graham, born August 10, 1885.
(b) Sarah Graham, twin, born October 31, 1887.
(c) Althea Graham, twin, born October 31, 1887; died June
27, 1889.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 3OI
(d) Catherine Eliza Graham, born September 13. 1891.
(e) Joseph Irwin Graham, born March 27, 1893.
(f) James WilJiam Graham, born October 16, 1894.
(g) Edwin Damon Graham, born February 15, 1898.
(h) Prince Alphonso Graham, born February i, 1905.
c. Lilhan WilHamson married, first, a Smith. They had two
children, Archibald and Wanda. She married, second, Thomas
Donlon and lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
d. Leander Alphonso Williamson was born at Olmstead,
Logan county, Kentucky, September 6, 1870; married April 19,
1893, at Evansville, Indiana, to Elizabeth Goedeke, who was born
at Evansville, Indiana, January 3, 1871. L. A. Williamson is a
printer, working at the Detroit Free Press office in Detroit, Mich-
igan.
Children :
(a) Ruth Artensia, born March 23, 1895, at Evansville, In-
diana.
(b) James William, born September 24, 1896, at Evansville,
Indiana.
(c) Althea Lee, born May 26, 1899, at Evansville, Indiana.
(d) Frederick Belford, born May 26, 1903, at Detroit, Mich-
igan.
(e) Dorothy Elizabeth, born February 10. 1905, at Detroit,
Michigan.
e. Mary Duke Williamson was born in Logan county, Ken-
tucky, March 14, 1872; married September 2, 1889, to William
Hawes Starks, who was born near Allensville, Todd county,
Kentucky, February 13, 1859. W. H. Starks is inspector for the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company at Louisville. Ken-
tucky.
Children :
(a) Benjamin Earl, born December 11, 1890, at Earlington,
Kentucky.
(b) Frank William, born June 17, 1893, at Guthrie, Ken-
tucky.
(c) Myrtle Lucile, born September 23, 1895, at Guthrie,
Kentucky.
?,02 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
■u
(d) James Lee, born September 27, 1897, at Guthrie, Ken-
tucky,
(e) Millicent Laverna, born April 14, 1901, at Livingston,
Kentucky.
(f) Florence Althea, born May 2, 1903, at Livingston, Ken-
tucky.
/. Althea Grey Williamson, College Corner, Kentucky.
g. Florence Olivia Williamson was born at Olmstead, Ken-
tucky, July 21, 1875; married at Russellville, Kentucky, July 21,
1895, to Exie Felts, a blacksmith, who was born in Homer, Ken-
tucky, February 24, 1873. They live at Oakville, Kentucky.
Children :
(a) Albert Garland, twin, born at Homer, Kentucky, De-
cember 6, 1896.
(b) Garnett Elbert, twin, born at Homer, Kentucky, Decem-
ber 6, 1896.
(c) Herbert Guy, born at Russellville, Kentucky. January
6, 1900.
(d) Eben Vick, twin, born at Russellville, Kentucky, July 19,
1902.
(e) Effie Vick, twin, born at Russellville, Kentucky, July 19,
1902.
(3) John V. Smith was born January 31, 1847; married
September 20, 1871, to Catherine P. Oakes, of Logan count}^,
Kentucky, who was born April 7, 1849. They live in Guthrie,
Kentucky. No children.
(4) Burnley Duke Smith was born April 7, 1849, in Todd
county, Kentucky; married February 22, 1871, to Mollie O. Mc-
Laughlin, of Caroline county, Virginia. Lives at Cisco, Texas.
Children :
a. Ada Burnley Smith, born June i, 1873; married Novem-
ber 23, 1894, to William H. Sims, deputy chancery clerk of
Hinds county, Mississippi.
Children :
(a) Richard Raymond Sims, born November 30, 1895.
(b) Hugh Graeme Sims, born November 8. 1897.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 3O3
b. George Keland Smith, born January 30, 1875. Is a
planter, living near Cisco, Texas.
c. Mattie Emmett Smith, twin, born April 18, 1877.
d. Mary Catherine Smith, twin, born April 18, 1877; died
September 16, 1877.
e. Vivian Minor Smith, born July 20, 1878; married July i,
1900, to Alice Lane, of Bell county, Texas. Is a railway con-
tractor.
Children :
(a) Elliott Minor Smith, born April 14, 1901.
(b) Charles S. Smith, born September 8, 1902.
(c) A son (unnamed) born August 17, 1904.
f. Richard Ricks Smith, born October 19, 1880. Is a planter,
living near Cisco, Texas.
g. Basil Duke Smith, born April 13, 1884; died August 21,
1885.
(5) Spottswood G. Smith was born in Todd county, Ken-
tucky, June 13, 1851; married October i, 1902, to Beulah Belle
Grant, who was born September 18, 1878, in Montgomery
county, Tennessee. Mr. Smith is a farmer, living near Guthrie,
Kentucky. No children.
(6) L. E. Smith was born June 2/, 1853; ^^^^^ October 20,
1886; unmarried.
(7) Mollie W. Smith was born July 22, 1856; married
January 23, 1878, to R. H. Moody, a farmer, who was born De-
cember 5, 1844, and died Novem.ber 8, 1879. Mrs. R. H. Moody
lives in Guthrie, Kentucky.
Children of R. W. and Mollie ( Smith) Moody :
a. Mattie W. Moody was born October 28, 1878; married
December 2t,, 1901, in Guthrie, Kentucky, to J. D. Clark, a lum-
berman, who was born in Alabama, April 7, 1867. They reside
in Peoria, Illinois.
b. James S. Moody was born January 22, 1880; married No-
vember 24, 1903, to Edna Russell, of Marion, Indiana. They
have one child, Annie Gray, who was born December 27, 1904.
They live in St. Louis, Missouri.
304 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
c. Mollie C. Moody was born April 30, 1881. Lives with her
mother in Guthrie, Kentucky,
d. Annie Gray Moody was born April 8, 1884; died Sep-
tember 16, 1894.
c. Daniel C. Moody was born December 21, 1886; lives with
his mother in Guthrie, Kentucky.
9
Nancy (Vawter) Gatlin
Nancy, daughter of Elliott and Anna (Gray) Vawter, was born
in Todd county, Kentucky, August 10, 1824. She came to Illi-
nois with her brother, Jephtha Vawter, and his family in the win-
ter of 1846-47. There she met James Gatlin, a widower with two
children. His first wife was Virginia Smith and his two children
were Eliza and Marion.
Nancy Vawter and James Gatlin were married September 21,
1847. James Gatlin was born in Alabama, August 5, 181 7, and
died July 22, 1897, ^^ Pleasant Plain, Iowa, and Nancy (Vawter)
Gatlin died at Pleasant Plain, Iowa, June 28, 1899.
Children of James and Virginia (Smith) Gatlin:
(i) Eliza J. Gatlin was born in Illinois, September 6, 1843;
married October 5, 1861, to John Blickensderfer, who was born
in Martin's Cove, Pennsylvania, February 15, 1835. They live
in Gardena, California.
Children :
a. Ella May, born in Brighton, Iowa, October 21, 1862.
b. Hattie D., born in Brighton, Iowa, October 24, 1866.
c. Kate S., born in Brighton, Iowa, June, 1869.
(2) Francis Marion Gatlin was born December 2^, 1844;
married January 22, 1873, to Mary McCaulley, who was born in
Ohio, March 3, 1848. They live in Lebanon, Kansas.
Children :
a. Nellie K., born November 16, 1876; married December
27, 1899, to Artemus Carpenter.
b. John A., born November 7, 1878; married March 16, 1904,
to Nellie Erdman.
c. Harry G., born September 4, 1880.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 305
d. Hattie, born December 2. 1884.
e. Clara A., born October 23. 1886.
Children of James and Nancy ( Vawter) Gatlin :
( I ) Virginia A. Gatlin, daughter of James and Nancy
(Vawter) Gatlin, was born in Illinois, September 25, 1848; mar-
ried March 26, 1869, to George V. Allen. George V. Allen was
born in Belmont county, Ohio, March 14, 1842, and died No-
vember 13, 1883. He was interested in flouring mills and was
also in the stock and grain business. He served in the Civil War
from 1862 to 1865 in Company A. Twenty-fifth Regiment of
Iowa Volunteers.
Children of George V. and Virginia (Gatlin) Allen:
a. Horace Dwight Allen, born January 15, 1870, at Brighton,
Iowa: married June 5, 1894, to Margarette Caldwell of Sioux
City, Iowa, who was born at Viola, Illinois, October 16, 1872.
Horace D. Allen is the general agent for the Banker's Accident
Insurance Company of Des Moines, Iowa. He lives in Sioux-
City, Iowa. One child, Gertrude Alice Allen, was born September
15, 1899, in Sioux City, Iowa.
b. Grace Margarette Allen was born November 25, 1871 :
married September 10, 1889, to Jacob N. Kanoff; died January
II, 1902.
Children :
(a) Ethel Fern, born February 17, 1891.
(b) Hazel Hester, born December 15, 1892.
(c) George William, born August 11, 1894.
(d) Harold F., born July 22, 1896.
(e) J. Wilson, born March 28, 1898.
(f) John Homer, born January 10, 1900.
J. N. Kanoff and children are living on a farm near Lenox.
Iowa.
c. Frank Gatlin Allen was born January 8, 1875, in Brighton.
Iowa; married May 29, 1900, at Burchard, Nebraska, to Alice
Myrtle Bratton, who was born November 8, 1880, in Lenox,
Iowa. F. G. Allen is teaching school at Blunt, South Dakota.
Children :
(a) Myrtle Grace, born August 12, 1901.
306 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
(b) George William, born March 8, 1903.
(c) Frank Bratton, born January i, 1905.
d. Charles J. Allen was born at Brighton, Iowa, October 23,
1876; married at Everest, Kansas, October 27, 1898, to Zella M.
Newton, a descendent of Sir Isaac Newton. They live in St.
Joseph, Missouri, where Charles J. Allen is superintendent of a
department of the Nelson Morris Packing Company.
Children: Georgia Grace, born May 4, 1900, at Everest,
Kansas.
c. Robert Rush Allen was born January i, 1879; married
May 7, 1 90 1, to Bertha Harvey. They live in Creston, Iowa,
where Robert R. Allen owns and operates a bakery.
Children: Grace Margarette, born March 4, 1904.
/. Ralph James Allen was born January 22, 1881, in Lenox,
Iowa; married August 17, 1904, to Mae Marion Crafts, who was
born in Council Blufifs, Iowa, May 5, 1884. They live in Kansas
City, Missouri, where Ralph J. Allen, who is a registered pharma-
cist, has a position in a drug store.
g. George V. Allen, Jr., was born December 7, 1883. He is
working for the Union Pacific Tea Company of Kansas City, Mis-
souri.
Virginia (Gatlin) Allen w^as married November 27, 1888, at
Lenox, Iowa, to J. West Jones, who was born in Knox county,
Illinois, October 10, 1848. They live at Lenox, Iowa. J. West
Jones is a live stock auctioneer.
Children: Harry Allen Jones was born April 22, 1890, at
Lenox, low^a. He is now attending school and expects to become
an auctioneer.
(2) Sarah S., daughter of James and Nancy (Vawter) Gat-
lin, was born in Peoria, Illinois, May 20, 1850; married Novem-
ber 10, 1870, to George Wells Carrell, who was born in Logan
county, Ohio, near Belief ontaine, April 17, 1846, and died August
27, 1 89 1. George W. Carrell was engaged in the wholesale hard-
ware business. He was the son of George Bruce and Censalina
( Shirley) Carrell, who were Virginians.
Children of George W. and Sarah (Gatlin) Carrell :
a. Myrtle Carrell v/as born February 28, 1873, at Paris,
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 307
Iowa; married June 21, 1893, at Sioux City, Iowa, to John Cleve-
land Pierce. Mr. Pierce is a salesman for lubricating oils ; is also
proprietor of a summer hotel at Old Orchard, Maine. Mr. and
Mrs. Pierce live in Boston, Massachusetts. They have two chil-
dren.
(a) Elinor Shirley Pierce, born April 28, 1898.
(b) Marian Pierce, born July 10. 1904.
b. Lake E. Carrell was born January 28, 1882, at New
Sharon, Iowa ; is a porcelain decorator in Lewiston, Maine.
c. Genevieve Hope Carrell was born in Sioux City, Iowa,
July 16, 1890; is a student in St. Joseph's Academy, Deering,
Maine.
Sarah (Gatlin) Carrell was married September 30, 1902, in
Syracuse, New York, by Rev. Payson E. Pierce, to Charles
August Amback.
Charles A. Amback was born March 8, 1842, at Grieg, Ger-
many. Pie came to America in October, 1858; is a woolen manu-
facturer at Sabattus, Maine.
Mr. Amback was married, first, in 1870, to Abbie Ellen Kim-
ball, who was born May 10, 1845, at Gardiner, Maine. They had
four children :
a. Carrie Adell Amback, born September 8, 1871, at Lisbon
Falls, Maine; is a teacher in the public schools in Hyde Park,
Massachusetts.
b. Ina May Amback, born May 14, 1873; is a teacher in the
public schools at Lisbon Falls, Maine.
c. Annie Louise Amback, born May 3, 1876, at Sabattus,
Maine; married October i, 1903, to Melvin E. Butler. They live
in Hyde Park, Massachusetts, and have one child, Charles Mel-
vin, who was born August 10, 1904.
d. John Everett Amback, born December 6, 1879, at Sabat-
tus, Maine ; is manager of a clothing house at Meriden, Con-
necticut.
(3) Kate L., daughter of James and Nancy (Vawter) Gat-
lin, was born in Iowa, May 10, 1852; married January 27, 1876,
to H. T. Fitzhugh, who was born in Henry county, Missouri,
May 14, 1845, and reared in Merced county, California. Mr.
308 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Fitzhugh is engaged in ranching and stock raising; lives in
Chromo, Colorado.
Children :
a. Roy W., born in Nevada, December 17, 1876; married
June 10, 1902, to Hattie South. They have one child, Hallie, who
was born June 9, 1903. Roy W. Fitzhugh works for the railroad
company and lives in Chama, New Mexico.
b. Edgar J. Fitzhugh, born in Nevada, March 5, 1878.
c. Gordon D. Fitzhugh, born in Colorado, May 8, 1880.
d. Harry F. Fitzhugh, born in Colorado, March 20, 1882.
e. Clarence H. Fitzhugh, born in Colorado, May 30, 1884.
/. Faye Pearl Fitzhugh, born in Colorado, July 21, 1886.
g. Mack A. Fitzhugh, born in Colorado, February 7, 1889.
h. Carrell C. Fitzhugh, born in Colorado, April 16, 1891.
(4) Nancy Elliott, daughter of James and Nancy (Vawter)
Gatlin, w^as born in Iowa, October 11, 1854; married October 21,
1880, to Dwight R. Battey, who was born in Willington, Tolland
county, Connecticut, August 21, 1853. Mr. Battey is a farmer,
living in La Junta, Colorado.
Children :
a. Blanche A. Battey, born March 24, 1882; married March
31, 1 90 1, to Virgil L. Snyder; lives in Rocky Ford, Colorado.
Children are Waldo A., born December 9, 1901, and Floyd T.,
born April 8, 1903.
b. Alvin G. Battey, born January 13, 1884; lives in La Junta,
Colorado.
(5) Sina E., daughter of James and Nancy (Vawter) Gat-
lin, was born in Iowa, November 19, 1856; married October 4,
1883, to Aaron Pickard, who was born near Pleasant Plain, Iowa,
July 17, 1857. Mr. Pickard is a farmer, living near Pleasant
Plain, Iowa.
Children :
a. Anna Fern, born November 26, 1884, near Pleasant Plain,
Iowa.
b. Grace Myrtle, born May 29, 1887, near Pleasant Plain,
Iowa.
(6) Jephtha D., son of James and Nancy (Vawter) Gatlin,.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 309
was born in Iowa, November 28, 1857; married January 10,
1885, to Mattie Dunn; died October 27, 1902. Mrs. Jephtha D.
Gatlin and children live at Batavia, Iowa.
Children : Ross, Lake E., who died, Wayne, Faye and
Charles.
(7) ]\Iargaret M., daughter of James and Nancy (Vawter)
Gatlin, was born in Iowa, July 8, i860; married October 12, 1887,
to Morton R. Gibbens. who was born at Sextonville, Wisconsin,
September 7, 1865. Mr. Gibbens is a stonemason, living at Fort
Collins, Colorado.
Children :
o. Ray R., born November 13, 1888.
b. James D., born May 29, 1890.
c. Fred A., born June 12, 1891.
d. Laura lone, born December 19, 1896; died February 6,
1898.
e. Vawter Morton, born December 6, 1899.
(8) Mary C, daughter of James and Nancy (Vawter) Gat-
lin, was born in Iowa October 4, 1862; married September 15,
1 88 1, to John A. Coleman, who was born at Mount Vernon,
Iowa, August 12, 1859. Mr. Coleman is in the mercantile and
also the stock business. Lives at Fort Collins, Colorado.
Children :
a. Clayton Carrell Coleman, born June 22, 1882; married
June 22, 1904, to Catherine L. Cross. They live in Alford, Colo-
rado.
b. Dwight Leonidas Coleman, born April 30, 1890; died
December 10, 1900.
c. Shirley Vawter Coleman, born October 6, 1893.
(9) Emma J., daughter of James and Nancy (Vawter) Gat-
lin, was born in Iowa February 3, 1865; married October 4,
1883, to Frank B. George, who was born September 13, 1862,
and died October 12, 1892.
Children :
a. Ollie Vawter, born at Pleasant Plain, Iowa, September 13,
1885.
b. Max B., born near Rock Creek, Wyoming, June 10, 1888.
3IO THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Emma J. George was married, second, to Everett De Garmo,
October 28, 1896.
Children :
a. James Ralph, born January 13, 1898, at Alton, Kansas.
Everett De Garmo and his wife are separated. His wife having
resumed the name of her first husband, now lives with her chil-
dren at New Windsor, Colorado.
Ill
For Frances, daughter of Philemon and Anna Vawter, see
record of William Vawter, son of Jesse.
Frances Vawter married her cousin William Vawter.
IV.
JESSE VAWTER5
(Philemon^, David^, John"^, Johni)
(1784-1832)
m.
FRANCES ANN WATTS
Children^
Grandchildren'
I. David Jamieson
Vawter m.
ist
Ann Hickinson
2d
Elizabeth A.
Waters
(i) William m.
Rachel Rob-
inett
(2) Mary tn.
Michels
(i) Julia m.
Thomas Riggs
(2) Alpheus, d.
(3) Jesse, d.
(4) John Wesley
m.
Matilda R.
Johnston
(5) Jamieson, d.
G. Grandchil-
dren^
Mary Alice, d.
Edwin Jamieson
m.
Mazelle Ayres
William Cyrus
Cassius Lincoln, d.
Philemon Vawter,
d.
Jesse Piatt
Emma Jane m.
George Varian
Imogene A. m.
J. C. Griffith
■{ Two children
f George A.
I John Thomas
■{ Richard J.
I Ariel
t Emmet
One child, d.
G. G. Grandchil-
dren*
Arthur
Ada Rachel
u
essie Cornelia
George William
3d
Susan B. Conner ^
(i) Virginia m.
ist
John Nether-
land
2d
Charles A.
Doughty
John Ray
Harriet Virginia
Josephine
312
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
3d
Susan B. Vawter
{Continued)
(2) Jamieson m.
ist
Sal'iie Snyder
2d
Adah Vivion
(3)
2. John m.
Mary E. Nichols
3. William H. ra.
Mary Ravenell
Milton B. m.
Alma N. Dixon
(1) John
(2) Wallace m.
Elizabeth Cap-
linger
(3) Mary m.
Harvey
Rutherford
(4) Frances m.
Cole
(5) Harriet
(6) Milly
(7) Drucilla m.
John Eads
(i) Alexander
(2) Prospey
(3) Absalom
(4) Mary
(5) Annie
(6) Carrie
(7) Jessie
Delias.
F. Bruce
Milton Jamieson
Wyley R.
William S.
f Adah Mary
\ Lena Virginia
Milton Ben, d.
Muriel Ben
Jamieson Shepard
Milton Ballard
Noah James
Dixon, d.
Joe Philemon
(4) Jefferson D. m.
f Goldie m.
I Otis Perkinson
"{ Sylvia m.
I Harry Cull
L Herman Wallace
Harry m.
Emma King
Ernest
Howard
Emma
Katherine
Roy
John
Mary, d.
Edward
Robert
Clifford
Sherley
Mary
Arthur
Harry
Lena, d.
Pauline
4. Absalom m.
Caroline McGill
No children
5. Adaline m.
William Nichols
No children
6. Nancy m.
Hayden
7. Mary, d. s.
8. Elizabeth m.
Glover
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 313
((i) Mary m.
Wm. Swiney
(2) Isaiah, d.
I On
e child
IV
JESSE VAWTER
Jesse Vawter, son of Philemon and Anna Vawter, was born
A-ugust 16, 1784, in the Holston river country, which is near
where the three states, Virginia, North CaroHna and Tennessee
now join. He was married January 29, 1807, to Frances Ann
Watts; hved in Oldham county, Kentucky, and died in 1832.
Children : D. Jamieson, John, William H., Absalom, Adaline,
Nancy, Mary and Elizabeth.
I
David Jamieson Vawter
David Jamieson Vawter, son of Jesse and Frances (Watts)
Vawter, was born June 29, 1809; married, first, Ann Hickinson.
Children of D. Jamieson and Ann (Hickinson) Vawter:
( I ) William Vawter was born in Oldham county, Kentucky,
June II, 1831 ; went with Philemon Vawter Crawford and family
in 1 85 1 to Oregon. In 1852 there was a great excitement in
Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco about gold on Queen Char-
lotte's Island and in Alaska. A company of sixty men was or-
ganized at Portland, Oregon, among whom was William Vawter.
They bought a vessel and fitted it out for a six-months' trip.
From Portland they went to Queen Charlotte's Island and an-
chored in Gold Harbor and prospected for a time without success.
Then they went to the mainland, where they found little gold and
the expedition failed. The Indians appeared to have gold in
small quantities, but refused to tell where they got it. William
Vawter was postmaster at Walla Walla, Washington, from 1877
to 1 88 1. He resigned and went to San Jacinto, California on ac-
count of his wife's health.
314 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
William Vawter was married in Linn county, Oregon, Jan-
uary 29, 1855, to Rachel Robinett, who was born in Jackson
county, Missouri, October 22., 1839.
Children :
a. Mary Alice Vawter, born December 29, 1856; died De-
cember 19, 1 86 1.
h. Edwin Jamieson Vawter, born December 14, 1856; mar-
ried to Mazelle Ayres ; has two children, Arthur and Ada Rachel ;
lived in Glendale, California, but is now in Nome, Alaska.
c. William Cyrus Vawter, born November 28, 1861.
d. Cassius Lincoln Vawter, born May i, 1864; died Decem-
ber 27, 1889, in Mexico.
c. Philemon Vawter, born April 26, 1867; died December 9,
1870.
/. Jesse Piatt, born in Waitsburg, Washington, November
17, 1869; was in Alaska from May until October, 1904, acting
as secretary for the Midnight Sun Mining and Ditch Company.
He is now engaged in the real estate business in Los Angeles,
California.
g. Emma Jane Vawter, born in Waitsburg, Washington,
June 16, 1873; married in Los Angeles, California, September
22, 1897, to George H. Varian, who was born in 1863 in North
Babylon, New York. George Varian is in the poultry business
in Glendale, California.
Children :
(a) Jessie Cornelia, born in Klamathon, California, July 10,
1898.
(b) George William, born at Oakland, California, June 15,
1902.
h. Imogene Abigail Vawter, born in Waitsburg, Washington,
September 14, 1875; married November 11, 1896, to John C.
Griffith, who was born March 3, 1871, in Berry, Kentucky. J. C.
Griffith is a boiler-maker, living at Hoisington, Kansas. No chil-
dren.
(2) Mary, daughter of D. Jamieson and Ann (Hickinson)
Vawter, was married in 1847 to a man named Michels, who lived
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 315
near Crawfordsville, Indiana. She had two children. In the year
1854 she was burned to death by her clothing catching on fire.
D. Jamieson Vawter was married, second, to Elizabeth Ann
Waters, who was born in Henry county, Kentucky, and died in
1848.
Children of D. Jamieson and Elizabeth Ann (Waters) Vaw-
ter:
( I ) Julia Vawter was born at Campbellsburg, Kentucky, De-
cember 2, 1838; married Thomas H. Riggs, who was born near
Wilmington, Dearborn county, Indiana, August i, 1836. They
live 'at 2308 Fourth avenue, Louisville, Kentucky.
Children :
a. George A, Riggs was born near Ghent, Carroll county,
Kentucky, July 20, 1858; married April 23, 1891, to Elizabeth
Walhouser; died July 24, 1904. Their children :
(a) George Wesley Riggs, born in Louisville, Kentucky,
September 17, 1892.
(b) Charles Edmund Riggs, born in Louisville, Kentucky,
February 18, 1894.
(c) Elizabeth Viola May Riggs, born in Louisville, Ken-
tucky, December 12, 1896.
b. Jane Elizabeth Riggs was born near Ghent, Kentucky,
October 25, i860; died June i, 1877,
c. Julia Catherine Riggs was born near Ghent. Kentucky,
September 13, 1862; died December 2, 1868.
d. John Thomas Riggs was born near Ghent, Kentucky, July
15, 1864; married May 7, 1890, to Mary Haberstich. who was
born in Louisville, Kentucky, July 25, 1867. They live in Louis-
ville, Kentuckv. Their children are :
(a) Edwin T. Riggs was born in Louisville, Kentucky, De-
cember 12, 1 89 1.
(b) Albert R. Riggs was born in Louisville, Kentucky, June
29, 1893.
(c) Flora Lee Riggs was born in Nashville, Tennessee, July
9. 1895-
(d) Ida May Riggs was born in Nashville, Tennessee, Au-
gust 15, 1897.
3l6 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
(e) Julia L. Riggs was born in Memphis, Tennessee, July 21,
1902.
e. Richard J. Riggs was born in Aurora, Indiana, June 25,
1866; died August 25, 1868.
/. Ariel I. Riggs was born in Aurora, Indiana, May 20, 1876.
g. Emmett Vawter Riggs was born in Aurora, Indiana, De-
cember 4, 1880; married July 15, 1903, to Catherine E. Russell,
who was born on Russell Hill, near Pewee Valley, Oldham
county, Kentucky. They live in Louisville, Kentucky, and have
one child, Charles Russell Riggs, who was born in Louisville,
March 22, 1905.
(2) Alpheus Vawter was a Confederate under the command
of General John H. Morgan, and was killed at Mt. Sterling,
Kentucky.
(3) Jesse Vawter died young.
(4) John Wesley Vawter was born near Campbellsburg,
Kentucky, March 10, 1844; joined the Confederate army under
the noted Kentucky guerilla. Colonel George M. Jesse, and re-
mained until the war closed in 1865. He was married at Port
Royal, Kentucky, January 7, 1868, to Matilda Roberta Johnston,
who was born near New Liberty, Kentucky, March 19, 1847.
They had one child, which died in infancy. J. W. Vawter has
been a farmer, a buyer and seller of leaf tobacco, and of late years
a lawyer. He lives in Turner's Station, Kentucky.
(5) Jamieson died in infancy.
D, Jamieson Vawter was married, third, October 30, 1850, to
Susan B. Conner (daughter of Torrence and Susan Conner),
who was born in Trimble county, Kentucky, March 19, 1834.
D. J. Vawter died in Arkansas City, Kansas, June 9, 1903. His
wife lives with her son Jamieson.
Children of D. Jamieson and Susan (Conner) Vawter:
(i) Virginia Vawter was born in Milton, Kentucky, March
17, 1853; married, first, to John A. Netherland, of Trimble
county, Kentucky, who was born in 1848 and died in September,
1884.
Children :
a. John Ray, born April 23, 1875.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 317
b. Harriet Virginia, born August 24, 1877. Is a nurse, living
in Chicago.
c. Josephine, born May 12, 1878.
Virginia (Vawter) Netherland was married, second, March,
1892, to Charles A. Doughty, who was born in New York, April
22, 1839.
They, with their daughter Josephine, live at Craig, Holt
county, Missouri.
(2) Jamieson Vawter was born in Milton, Kentucky, Sep-
tember 18, 1856; married in Trimble county, Kentucky, Novem-
ber 17. 1884, to Sallie G. Snyder (daughter of William and
Delia Snyder), who was born in Trimble county, Kentucky,
September 3, i860; died in Arkansas City, Kansas, April 21,
1893.
Their children were :
a. Delia S. Vawter, born in Arkansas City, Kansas, Septem-
ber 3, 1885.
b. F. Bruce Vawter, born in Arkansas City, December 22,
1886.
c. Milton Jamieson Vawter, born in Arkansas City, April 21,
1889.
d. Wiley R. Vawter, born in Carroll county, Kentucky, April
3, 1891.
e. William S. Vawter, born in Arkansas City, Kansas, March
29, 1893.
Jamieson Vawter was married, second, at Paris, Kentucky, No-
vember 13, 1894, to Adah C. Vivion (daughter of Irvin and
Mary Ann Vivion), who was born in Boone county, Missouri,
September 4, 1870; died in Columbia, Boone county, Missouri,
March 22, 1904. Jamieson Vawter is a physician, living in Ar-
kansas City, Kansas.
Children :
a. Adah Mary Vawter, born in Arkansas City, October 20,
1895.
b. Lena Virginia Vivion Vawter, born in Ponca City, Okla-
homa, June 14, 1899.
(3) Milton B. Vawter was born in Milton, Kentucky, Sep-
3l8 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
tember 8, 1858; married June 21, 1882, in Arkansas City, Kansas,
to Alma N. Nixon, who was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, Octo-
ber 2^, 1858. Milton B. Vawter is a dentist, living in Arkansas
City, Kansas.
Children :
a. Milton Ben Vawter, born and died August 26, 1883.
h. Muriel Ben Vawter, born November i, 1884, in Arkansas
City.
c. Jamieson Shepard Vawter, born September 23, 1886, in
Arkansas City.
d. Milton Ballard Vawter, born October 4, 1888, in Arkansas
City.
e. Noah James Dixon Vawter, born July 16, 1894; died June
18, 1896.
/. Joe Philemon Vawter, born September 3, 1898, in Arkan-
sas City.
(4) Jefferson Davis Vawter, born May 10, 1861, in Milton,
Kentucky. Is married and living in Natchez, Mississippi.
2
John Vawter
John, son of Jesse and Frances (Watts) Vawter, was married
to Mary E. Nichols. John lived in Milton, Kentucky.
Children of John and Mary (Nichols) Vawter:
(1) John.
(2) Wallace; married Elizabeth Francis Caplinger.
Children of Wallace and Elizabeth (Caplinger) Vawter:
a. Goldie; married Otis Perkinson, of Trout, Kentucky,
They have one child, Pauline.
h. Sylvia ; married Harry Cull, of Milton, Kentucky.
c. Herman Wallace.
(3) Mary married Harvey Rutherford and lives in Madison,
Indiana.
Children : Harry, dead ; married Emma King, Ernest, How-
ard, Emma, Katherine, Roy.
(4) Fanny married Mr. Cole. Is dead. Did live in Milton,
Kentucky.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 319
Children : John, Mary, died.
(5) Harriet.
(6) Milly.
(7) Driicilla married John Eads. Lives in Madison, Indiana.
Children : Edward, Robert, Clifford, Sherley, Mary, Arthur,
Harry, Lena, died.
3
William H. Vawter
William H., son of Jesse and Frances (Watts) Vawter, was
born , — ; married Mary Ravenell, of Bedford, Kentucky.
They moved from Bedford, Kentucky, to Chicago, Illinois, where
William died. His widow lives in Chicago, at 2443 West Ohio
street.
Children : Alexander, Prospey, Absalom, Mary, Annie, Carrie
and Jessie.
Absalom Vawter
Absalom, son of Jesse and Frances (Watts) Vawter, went to
Bardstown, Kentucky ; married Caroline McGill. Was in general
merchandise business in Stevensport, Kentucky, in 1847. -^^
children.
5
Adaline (Vawter) Nichols
Adaline, daughter of Jesse and Frances (Watts) Vawter, mar-
ried William Nichols. No children.
Nancy (Vawter) Hayden
Nancy, daughter of Jesse and Frances (Watts) Vawter, mar-
320 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
ried a Hayden. They had two children : Mary and Isaiah. Isaiah
died young. Mary married WilHam Swiney and went to Indian
Territory before the Civil War. Her mother joined her there.
7
Mary Vawter
Mary, daughter of Jesse and Frances (Watts) Vawter, was
never married.
8
Elizabeth (Vawter) Glover
Elizabeth, daughter of Jesse and Frances (Watts) Vawter,
married a Glover and lived in Bedford, Kentucky. They had
one child in 1848. They moved to Missouri soon after 1848, and
their location is unknown.
V.
BEVERLY VAWTER5
(Philemon*, David^, John2, Johni)
(1789-1873)
m.
ELIZABETH CRAWFORD
(1792-1866)
r
Children*
Grandchildren'
I. Pascal Vawterm.
Eliza Mavity
(i) Mary Ann m.
Peter T.
Hedges
(2) John Beverly
m.
Flora Keith
G. Grandchil-
G. G. Grandchil
dren*
dren»
Dora A.
Fred A.
Arthur
ThaddeusA. in.
Mary Atkinson
Mary
Herman
Bertram
Grace
^ Mildred
Ida May m. [
Lee Cronkhite
Mary E.
Rosa Blanche ra,
Hiram Brown
' Earl Radford
Dorothy M.
Myrtle M.
1 Charles M. m.
Ida Heloy
Alice F. m.
C. E. Firebaugh
Mattie D.
Myrtle E. m.
Albert Denger
Minnie F. m.
Bertie Tillotson
Keith m.
Cora E. Kiser
Rena
< One son, d.
Harold
Lela
Lee
P. T. Norman
Lois
A son
( Flora E.
I L. B. An
Arden
322
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
(3) Samantha J. m. i
Levi M. Hedges
Lourena I. m.
Joseph B. Enix
Ashba V. m.
Mary Mildred
Wear
Lora O.
Mary A. m.
Charles Smith
Lida m.
J. S.Gill
John M. m.
Effie A.Saunders
William R.
Melinda S.
Charles K. m.
Vietta Kingham
Walter G. m.
Mamie Wills
Levi M. F.
r Frank C. m.
{4) Aureana m. J Lillian Lepper
Milton S. Vaw- i ^^^^.^ ^
I Bert Watts, d.
<S Clara M.
( Elmo
C Effie Grace
J Albion Tourgee
1 Mary Mildred
I Eva Luella
i, Ashba Vawter, Jr.
Thelma May
ter
I. Pascal Vawter j
{Continued}
(5) Alecy m.
Jesse L. Trues-
dell
(6) Dotham, d. s.
(7) Charles Pub-
lius m. Susan
Degman
(8) James Mavity
m. ist. Mary
Williams
2d.
Lura Sander-
Rhoyden
Nadyne
Louise
r Aureana m.
John Mullin
Alverda m.
Robert Stricklett
SallieS.
Quintus V. m.
Flora F. Fearis
Lulu May, d. s.
Charles Richard
m. C. Delia
Morrison
James A. m.
-( Ida May McCoy
Jesse Gertrude, d.
Henry Garfield, d.
Ellie Bessie, d.
Frank, d.
A daughter, d.
j John Shea
"1 Maud M.
1^ Herbert Orin
( Shubert
; Earl Rea
Oleta W.
Velma Crystel
Charles Porter
( Le
I Di
Lena Elsie, d.
ck Mavity
Fred Beverly
Marv Lucile
4
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
3-0
2. Lucinda m.
Thos. Blair
3. Rebecca, d. s.
4. Mclinda, d. s.
?'■
) Elizabeth m.
Milton West
5. Philemon m.
Martha
Humphreys
6. James m.
Mary Elder
7. Richard m.
ist.
Maria Lame
2d.
Elizabethlrwin
8. Cyrus m.
Sarah A.Finley
9. Samuel m.
Frances Ames
!
10. John M. m.
Sarah J. Par-
dun
(i) Humphreys m.
Carter
(2) Hettie Hawes
ra. Maurice
Joyce
(3) Sallie Beverly
m. \Vm. H.
Harris
(4) Robert Craw-
ford (dau.) ra.
\Vm. A.Milli-
ken
No children
(i) Jane m.
ist. Charles H.
Wright
2d.
Richard John-
son
(2) Cyrus Phile-
mon m. Martha
Roush
(3) Joseph, d. s.
(4) Anna m.
Charles E. Ir-
win
(i) Samantha, d.
(2) Wm. Ira m.
EttaM. Hill
(i) Nannie m.
Winfield Dra-
per
(2) James L. m.
Ethel Ransdall
(3) Mollie m.
Herbert Fisher
(i) Minnie Bell m.
Alfonso Harold
(2) Walter m.
Annie M. Haw-
thorn
Cora B. ra. j Esther
G. W. Vandergrift "( Ethel
Claude Philemon
Maurice
Humphreys
Edwin Vawter
Beverly
Humphreys
Hettie Vawter
Rhoda Jamieson
No children
No children
Joseph
Vawter Oliver
Vernon Hill
Wm. Ira, Jr.
No children
Edna
No children
324 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
V
BEVERLY VAWTER
Beverly, the son of Philemon and Anne Vawter, was born Sep-
tember 28, 1789; married March 5, 1812, Elizabeth Crawford,
who was born March 29, 1792, in Jared county, Kentucky. Eliza-
beth Crawford was the sister of James Crawford, who married
Lucy Vawter, a sister of Beverly. Beverly Vawter came from
Kentucky to Jefferson county, Indiana, in 181 1. He was a well-
known Christian minister. A full account of his life will be found
in "Biographical Sketches of the Pioneer Preachers of Indiana,"
by Madison Evans, A. M., published in Philadelphia by J. Challen
& Sons, 1398 Chestnut street.
Beverly Vawter died April i, 1872, and Elizabeth, his wife,
died January 29, 1866.
The children of Beverly and Elizabeth (Crawford) Vawter
were : Pascal, Lucinda. Rebecca, Melinda, Philemon, James,
Richard, Cyrus, Samuel and John.
Pascal Vawter
Pascal, son of Beverly and Elizabeth (Crawford) Vawter, was
born January 6, 181 3, in Madison, Indiana; married April i,
1834, in Jennings county, Indiana, to Eliza Mavitv; died Jan-
uary 26, 1899.
Eliza (Mavity) Vawter, the youngest daughter of John and
Dorothea Mavity, was born in Montgomery county. Kentucky,,
near Mt. Sterling, May 7, 181 3; died August 11, 1904.
Children : Mary Ann, John Beverly, Samantha Jane, Aureana,
Alecy, Eliza, Dotham, Charles Publius and James Mavity.
( i) Mary Ann, daughter of Pascal -and Eliza (Mavity) Vaw-
ter, was born December 11, 1836, in Jefferson county, Indiana;
married March 12, 1857, in Rowan county, Kentucky, to Peter
Thompson Hedges, who v/as born January 29, 1831, in Fleming
county, Kentucky.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 325
Children :
a. Thaddeus A. Hedges was born August 22, 1859, in Rowan
county, Kentucky; married February 19, 1882, to Mary V. Atkin-
son. T. A, Hedges is a Christian minister, living in LaGrange,
Missouri.
Children :
(a) Dora A. Hedges, born September 23, 1883.
(b) Fred A., born June 16, 1886.
(c) Arthur, born July 3, 1888.
(d) Mary, born March 19, 1890.
(e) Herman, born December i, 1891.
(f) Bertram, born December i, 1893.
(g) Grace, born January 25, 1896.
(h) Mildred, born March 11, 1898.
h. Ida May Hedges was born in Vermilion county, Illinois,
April 30. 1865; married March 19, 1891, to Lee Cronkhite, a
farmer. They have one child, Mary E., who was born October
6, 1900. Live in Medaryville, Indiana.
c. Rosa Blanche Hedges was born October 9, 1867; married
December 24, 1891, to Hiram Brown, a farmer living in Medary-
ville, Indiana. They have three children.
(a) Earl Radford Brown, born May 29, 1893.
(b) Dorothy M. Brown, born February 7, 1895.
(c) Myrtle M. Brown, born March 7, 1897.
d. Charles M. Hedges, born October 25, 1869; married July
26, 1896, to Ida Heloy. They had one son, who died.
e. Alice F. Hedges was born July 18, 1872; married Decem-
ber II, 1892, to C. E. Firebaugh, a farmer of Medaryville, In-
diana. They have six children.
(a) Harold Firebaugh, born September 22, 1893.
(b) Lela Firebaugh, born May 4, 1895.
(c) Lee Firebaugh, born August 16, 1897.
(d) P. T. Norman Firebaugh, born January 11, 1901.
(e) Lois Firebaugh, born January 18, 1903.
(f) A son, born December 5, 1904.
/. Mattie D. Hedges was born January 20, 1875. She is a
teacher in the high school at Medaryville, Indiana.
326 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
g. Myrtle E. Hedges, born December 21, 1877; married De-
cember 31, 1 90 1, to Albert Denger, of Medaryville, Indiana.
h. Minnie F. Hedges, born December 21, 1877; married De-
cember 26, 1897, to Bertie Tillotson, a farmer of Potomac, Illi-
nois. They have two children: Flora E., born April 10, 1899,
and L. B. Arden, born September 22, 1901.
(Minnie and Myrtle Hedges were twins.)
(2) John Beverly, son of Pascal and Eliza (Mavity) Vaw-
ter, was born at Madison, Indiana, December 19, 1839; married
March 3, 1870, to Flora Keith, who was born in Tyrrell county,
Ohio, February 25, 1851. John Beverly Vawter was a member
of the Fourth Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry, and was
captured in an early attempt to destroy railroads between Atlanta
and the sea, and was held in the Andersonville prison for nine
months, or until the close of the war. He was a graduate of Ken-
tucky University Bible Schools ; was a Christian minister, and
was for eighteen years general secretary of the Iowa Christian
Association. He wrote a number of books, one being "Prison
Life in Dixie." He died in Des Moines, Iowa, January 28, 1897.
Children of John Beverly and Flora (Keith) Vawter were:
a. Keith Vawter, born April 22, 1872 ; married August, 1897,
to Cora Elizabeth Kiser, who was born in Iowa in 1872. They
live in Chicago, Illinois, where Keith Vawter is manager for the
Redpath Lyceum Bureau. No children.
h. Rena Vawter was born October 20, 1874. Lives in Des
Moines, Iowa, where she is a demonstrator of domestic science.
(3) Samantha Jane, daughter of Pascal and Eliza (Mavity)
Vawter, was born February 6, 1841 ; married November 10, 1857,
to Levi Marion Hedges, a farmer, who was born in Fleming
county, Kentucky, May 30, 1832. Samantha Jane Hedges died
at Fithian, Illinois, in 1884.
Children of Levi Marion and Samantha Jane Hedges :
a. Lourena I. Hedges was born August 20, 1858; married
March 26, 1879. to Joseph B. Enix; died in 1883.
Children :
(a) Clara M. Enix.
(b) Elmo Enix.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 32/
b. Ashba V. Hedges was born in Rockville, Kentucky,
August 29, i860; married June 21, 1891, at Danville, Illinois, to
Mary Mildred Wear, who was born at Perryville, Indiana, Sep-
tember 4. 1874. Ashba V. Hedges is principal of schools at Nor-
catur. Kansas.
Children :
(a) Effie Grace Hedges, born October 25. 1893.
(b) Albion Tourgee Hedges, born September 11, 1895.
(c) Mary Mildred Hedges, born August 3. 1899.
(d) Eva Luella Hedges, born September 25, 1901.
(e) Ashba Vawter Hedges, Jr.. born December 28, 1903.
c. Lora O. Hedges, born November 26, 1862; died in 1883.
(/. Mary A. Hedges, born August 26, 1865 ; married August
22, 1886, to Charles E. Smith; died in 1886.
c. Lida Hedges, born May 30, 1868; married May 30, 1901,
to J. S. Gill. J. S. Gill is a carpenter, living in Topeka, Kansas.
Children :
(a) .
(b) .
/. John M. Hedges was born May 25, 1870; married Novem-
ber 28, 1895, to Effie A. Saunders, who was born . John M.
Hedges is a railroad carpenter, living at Denison, Kansas.
Children :
(a) .
(b) .
(c) .
(d) .
g. William R. Hedges, born February 22, 1873; died Feb-
ruary, 1873.
Ji. Melinda S. Hedges, born February 22, 1873; died Feb-
ruar>', 1873.
/. Charles E. Hedges, born December 2y, 1876; married Jan-
uary 22, 1902, to Vietta Kingham, who was born .
Charles E. Hedges is a school teacher living at North Cedar,
Kansas.
Children :
(a) Thelma May.
328 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
y. Walter G. Hedges, born at Mimcie, Illinois, March 18,
1880; married January i, 1903, to Mamie Wills, who was born
at Muscotah, Kansas, August 9, 1883.
Walter G. Hedges is a railroader, living at Denison, Kansas.
Children :
(a) Perpecta Marie Hedges, born at Kansas City, Missouri,
October 16, 1903.
k. Levi Marion Hedges, born June 16, 1882; is a carpenter
living at Bear River City, Utah.
(4) Aureana, daughter of Pascal and Eliza (Mavity) Vaw-
ter, was born January i, 1843 ; married to Milton S. Vawter, De-
cember 28, 1865 ; died October 31, 1872.
( For children of Aureana and Milton S. Vawter, see record
of Milton S. Vawter.)
(5) Alecy, daughter of Pascal and Eliza (Mavity) Vawter,
wa.s born February 20, 1845 ; married February 4, 1868, to Jesse
L. Truesdell, who was born November 14, 1847, in Lewis county,
Kentucky. Mr. Truesdell is a farmer living at Cove Dale, Ken-
tucky.
Children of Jesse and Alecy (Vawter) Truesdell :
a. Aureana Truesdell was born May 13, 1869 ; married March
19, 1896, to John Mullen. Mr. Mullen is pastor of the Church of
the Disciples in McConnelsville, Ohio.
Children of John and Aureana Mullen are :
(a) Louise, born January 10, 1897.
(b) John Shea, born May 15, 1900.
(c) Maud M., born February 2, 1902.
(d) Herbert Orin, born August 14, 1904.
h. Alverda Truesdell was born October 7, 1871 ; married
February 24, 1898, to Robert Stricklett, a farmer living near
McKenzie, Lewis county, Kentucky.
Children of Robert and Alverda Stricklett :
(a) Shubert A., born December 18, 1898.
(b) Earl Rea, born March 23, 1903.
c. Sallie S. Truesdell was born June 3, 1874.
d. Quintus Vawter Truesdell was born August 7, 1879; mar-
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 329
ried March 21, 1901, to Flora F. Fearis. Is a farmer, living at
Cove Dale, Kentucky.
Mr. and Mrs. Q. V. Truesdell have one child, Oleta W., who
was born October 7, 1902.
(6) Dotham, son of Pascal and Eliza (Mavity) Vawter, was
born April 30, 1847; died October 29, 1869, at Ferris, Kentucky.
(7) Charles Publius, son of Pascal and Eliza (Mavity) Vaw-
ter, was born May 2"/, 1840; married September 9, 1875, to
Susan Degman. Charles P. Vawter taught school for a while in
Lewis county. Kentucky; farmed in Mason county for several
years; was in the insurance business for a while, and is now in
the office of the Produce Shippers Despatch Co., of Lexington,
Kentucky.
Children of Charles P. and Susan (Degman) Vawter:
a. Lulu May, born July 26, 1876; died February 12, 1892.
b. Charles Richard LeRoy, born September 22, 1878; mar-
ried May 20, 1903, to Carolyn Delia Morrison, of Sonora, Ken-
tucky. C. R. L. Vawter is pastor of the South Meridian Street
Church at Indianapolis, Indiana. He has one child, Velma
Crystel, born July 29, 1904.
c. James Arthur, born December 21. 1879; married October
22, 1902, to Ida May McCoy, of Lexington, Kentucky, who was
born January 5, 1881. James A. Vawter is employed in the
Louisville & Evansville shops at Lexington, Kentucky. He has.
one child, Charles Porter LeRoy, who was born April 19, 1904.
d. and c. Jessie Gertrude and Henry Garfield (twins), born
in 1881 ; died in 1882.
/. Ellie Bessie, born in 1883; died in 1884.
g. Frank, born in 1886; died in infancy.
h. A daughter, born in 1896; died in infancy.
(8) James Mavity, son of Pascal and Eliza (Mavity) Vaw-
ter was born December 21, 1852, in Jefferson county. Indiana;
married May 14, 1884 to Mary L. Williams, who was born De-
cember 20, 1863, in Quincy, Illinois, and died September 20, 1889.
Children of James Mavity and Mary (Williams) Vawter
were :
a. Lena Elsie, born December 5. 1885 ; died October 10, 1886.
330 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
h. Dick Mavity, born December i8, 1888.
James M. Vawter was married, second, December 11, 1890, to
Lura J. Sanderson.
Children :
a. Fred Beverly, born December 28, 1891.
h. Mary Lucile, born August 31, 1895.
James Mavity Vawter is pastor of the Christian Church at
Jeffersonville, Indiana.
LuciNDA (Vawter) Blair
Lucinda, daughter of Beverly and Elizabeth Vawter, was born
September 30. 1814. in Jefferson county, Indiana; married to
Thomas Blair, a farmer; died August 30, 1845. They had one
child, Elizabeth V., who was born July 17, 1845, ^^^ after the
death of her mother lived with her grandparents, Beverly and
Elizabeth Vawter, until her marriage to Milton West, February
2, 1 87 1. She died January 27, 1875, leaving one child, Cora.
(See record of Milton West.) Thomas Blair died near Ver-
sailles, Indiana, July, 1881.
3
Rebecca Vawter
Rebecca, daughter of Beverly and Elizabeth (Crawford) Vaw-
ter, died as a child.
4
Melinda Vawter
Melinda, daughter of Beverly and Elizabeth (Crawford) Vaw-
ter, died as a child.
5
Philemon Vawter
Philemon, son of Beverly and Elizabeth (Crawford) Vawter,
was born June 22, 1819, near Madison, Indiana. He was a
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 33 1
Christian minister. He preached in and about Madison for a
while, then moved to IlHnois, where he studied and entered upon
the practice of law at Springfield. He was a successful lawyer,
but concluded to return to the ministry. It was said that Mr.
Lincoln met Mrs. Vawter on the street in Springfield and said :
"Do you know what reason your husband had for abandoning the
law? Had he anything like financial reverses?" "Why, no,"
said Mrs. Vawter, "it was conscience with him ; pure conviction
of duty."
Philemon Vawter preached for many years in different sections
of the country, and finally went to Washington City from Port
Gibson, Mississippi. He was visiting in Vienna, Virginia, near
Washington, and while there had a fall down a stairway which
resulted in his death. He died October 2, 1894.
Philemon Vawter married Martha A. Humphreys, of Wood-
ford county, Kentucky.
Children of Philemon and Martha (Humphreys) Vawter:
( 1 ) Humphreys Vawter married Miss Carter and went to
Oregon; died in Denver in 1887. He had one son, Claude
Philemon.
(2) Hettie Hawes Vawter married Maurice Joyce, of Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas, and had one son, Maurice Humphreys.
Mrs. Joyce died in St. Louis, Missouri, August, 1885.
(3) Sarah Beverly Vawter married William H. Harris, of
Cleveland, Ohio, and had three children : Edwin Vawter, Bev-
erly Humphreys and Llettie Vawter. Mrs. Harris lives in Wash-
ington City.
(4) Robert Crawford Vawter married Judge William A.
Milliken, of Nashville, Tennessee, and has one daughter, Rhoda
Jamieson. They live in Washington City.
James Vawter
James, son of Beverly and Elizabeth (Crawford) Vawter, mar-
ried Mary Elder; died February 27, 1894, at Bogota, Illinois.
He had no children. His Vv'ife lives at Wakefield, Jasper county,
Illinois.
332 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
7
Richard Vawter
Richard, son of Beverly and Elizabeth (Crawford) Vawter,
was born September 22, 1828, near Madison, Indiana; married
January 13, 1848, to Maria Lame, who was born in Jefferson
county, Indiana, August 25, 1827, and died September 23, 1881.
Children of Richard and Maria (Lame) Vawter:
( 1 ) Jennie Vawter was born near Madison, Indiana ; married
April 28, 1869, to Dr. Charles H. Wright, who was born in Cin-
cinnati, Ohio, December 22, 1839, and died August 26, 1889, in
North Madison, Indiana.
Dr. Charles H. Wright graduated from the Ohio Medical Col-
lege in 1870, and was a practicing physician and surgeon at Madi-
son. Indiana. He served as a Union soldier in the War of the
Rebellion, was wounded and in the military hospital for a while.
After his recovery, he was connected with the medical depart-
ment during the remainder of his service, as assistant surgeon.
Jennie (Vawter) Wright was married, second, November 6,
1900, to Richard Johnson, who was born in Belfast, Ireland, Jan-
uary 12, 1829.
Mr. Johnson left Belfast for New York in 1850; remained in
New York City one year, then v.ent to Madison, Indiana, where
he has since been identified with many of its large business inter-
ests. Mr. Johnson is a banker and a Presbyterian.
(2) Cyrus Philemon Vawter was born February 4, 1852;
married in Acton, Indiana, in 1878, to Martha Roush; died April
5, 1 88 1. He was a physician and lived in Acton, Indiana.
(3) Joseph Vawter was born February 12, 1858; died, un-
married, December 18, 1896.
(4) Anna Vawter was born January 7, 1866; married April
I, 1897, to Charles E. Irwin, who was born May 4, i860, in Mon-
roe township, Jefferson county, Indiana. They live near Madison,
Indiana, R. R. No. 10.
Children :
a. Joseph Irwin, born August 21, 1898.
h. Vawter Oliver Irwin, born February 25, 1905.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 333
Richard Vawter was married, second, October ii, 1897, to
Elizabeth A. Irwin, a sister to the husband of his daughter Anna.
Ehzabeth (Irwin) Vawter was born August 5, 1852. No chil-
dren.
Richard Vawter and wife live on a farm near Madison, Indiana.
8
Cyrus Vawter
Cyrus, the son of Beverly and Elizabeth (Crawford) Vawter,
was born near Madison, Indiana, September 28, 1830; married
in Linn county, Oregon, December 10, 1857, to Sarah A. Finley,
who was born in Piatt county, Missouri, May 18, 1840.
Cyrus Vawter went to Oregon with Philemon Vawter Craw-
ford and family in the year 1851. They went by water to St.
Joseph, Missouri, and from there went overland with an ox team.
It took them six months to make the trip from Madison to the
Willamette Valley in Oregon. Cyrus Vawter located at a place
then known as Boston Mills, where he became the owner of large
flouring mills. He died in Linn county, Oregon, February 11,
1864, and was buried at Crawfordsville, Oregon. His wife (now
Mrs. Sarah A. Ribelin) lives at Halsey, Linn county, Oregon.
Children of Cyrus and Sarah ( Finley) Vawter :
(i) Samantha Vawter, born October 10, 1858; died Novem-
ber I, 1858.
(2) William Ira Vawter, born March 24, 1863; married
February 10, 1889, to Etta M. Hill, who was born at Silver City,
Idaho, January 23, 1869.
W. I. Vawter is president of the Jackson County Bank of Med-
ford, Oregon, and has represented Douglas and Jackson counties
in the legislature.
Children of W. I. and Etta (Hill) Vawter:
a. Vernon Hill Vawter, born in Medford, Oregon, November
13, 1890.
b. William Ira Vawter. Jr., born in Medford, Oregon, May
21, 1894.
334 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
9
Samuel Vawter
Samuel, son of Beverly and Elizabeth (Crawford) Vawter,
was born near Madison, Indiana, December 24, 1832; married
October 16, 1853, to Frances Ames, who was born August 7,
1834, near Madison, Indiana. Samuel Vawter was a miller. He
died in Franklin, Indiana, March 15, 1884.
Children of Samuel and Frances (Ames) Vawter:
(i) Nannie Vawter was born December 17, 1856; married
June 19, 1878, to Winfield S. Draper, who was born March 25,
1852, near Franklin, Indiana. Mr. Draper is in the grocery busi-
ness in Franklin. No children.
(2) James L. Vawter was born November 2^, 1864; mar-
ried June 25, 1902, to Ethel Ransdall, who was born May 30,
1 881, near Franklin, Indiana.
James Vawter is a traveling salesman for a New York wall-
paper company, and lives in Des Moines, Iowa.
(3) Mollie Vawter was born December 5, 1867; married
June 4, 1889, to Herbert M. Fisher, who was born July 2, 1867,
in Vinton, Iowa. Mr. Fisher is a wholesale and retail dealer in
meats and produce, and lives in Franklin, Indiana. One child,
Edna, born April i, 1890.
10
John M. Vawter
John M., son of Beverly and Elizabeth (Crawford) Vawter,
was born in Shelby township, Jefferson county, Indiana, Feb-
ruary 29, 1836; married. Thursday, April 15, 1869, in Jefferson
county, Indiana, to Sarah J. Pardun, daughter of Walter Kanap
and Diana Pardun. Sarah (Pardun) Vawter was born April 18,
1847, i^ Manchester, Dearborn county, Indiana. John M. Vaw-
ter is a retired merchant, living in Indianapolis, Indiana.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 335
Children of John M. and Sarah (Pardun) Vawter :
(i) Minnie Bell Vawter was born in Jefferson county, In-
diana, April 13, 1870; married June 14, 1894, in Greenwood,
Indiana, to Dr. Alfonso R. Harold, who was born October 27,
1867, near Tonganohie, Kansas. Dr. Harold is connected with
the Physio-Medical College of Indiana ; is a member of the Na-
tional and State Associations, and was appointed delegate to the
American Congress on Tuberculosis at Washington, D. C, in
April, 1905. Dr. Harold and wife live in Indianapolis, Indiana.
(2) Walter Wright Vawter was born August 11, 1875, ^^
Ripley county, Indiana; married November 12, 1901, to Annie
Myrtle Hawthorn, in Helena, Montana. Annie (Hawthorn)
Vawter was born January 7, 1879, at Eugene, Iowa.
Walter W. Vawter lives at 2725 Humboldt avenue, South
Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is engaged in the lumber business.
VI.
LUCY VAWTER5
(Philemon^, David^, John^, Johni)
m.
JAMES CRAWFORD
(1790-1856)
Children*
Grandchildren'
G. Grandchil-
G. G. Grandchil
dren"
dren^
' (i) Beverly v., d.s.
(2) Henry Paschal
' Alice m.
m.
Church
Elizabeth Fin-
ley
Phil. V.
>. Richard F.
Virginia E
Arthur
Janet Content
" William V. m.
J. Spencer
Cora Spencer
Margaret
W. Vawter, Jr.
Jasper V., Jr.
_ Cora May
Letitia J. m.
Rae
(3) Jasper Vincent
L.G. Atherton
Leona Crawford
ro.
Elizabeth N. '
Dunlap
Maud Maria ra.
Chas. A. Jones
1 Francis Vawter
Philemon Vaw-
ter Crawford
m.
Philemon Vawter
Clyde Piatt, d. s.
Gertrude
Letitia S.Smith
Jasper Garfield
Robert Neal
Otheo Glenn
Jesse Dunlap, d. s.
'Effie Ellen m.
' Ralph
Orin
^ Theda
(4) Elvin J. m.
Ed. Fenton ^
1st
Mary J. Way-
mire
Edwin Manifred m.
Margaret C.
Lemon
George
Orville Franklin
2d
Elvin John
Alice Adams
Mary Letitia m.
' Alicia
James W. Kim- ^
Clark
3d
ball
^ Duane
Mrs. Anna Mills
Elma May m.
Wm. E. Porth
Phil Vawter
^ Uleric Zwingle
Willma
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Z2>7
Philemon Vaw-
ter Crawford
( Continued)
(5) Margaret S. m.
ist
William Con-
over
2d
H. M. Little
(6) UlricL., d.s.
(7) Otheo, d. s.
(8) Goodwin, d. s.
(9)
Mary A. ni.
M. A. Dunlap
2. Robert Craw-
ford, d. s.
(lo) Zilpha, d. s.
(ii) Louisa Serrel
m.
T. A. Lewis
(12)
B. Vawter m.
Mary F. Cow-
gill
H. D.
O. M.
) Zilplia m.
I V. R. Fuller
Mabel m.
Park S. Shoff
^ John B. m.
Graciel Tabler
Hattie M. m.
Fred D. Rinehart
Lottie Zilpha m.
John A. Shields
George Layton
Wm. Philemon
Lou Bessie Ella
Elvin Crawford
Arta Bell m.
Wilson B. Sten-
nett
Francis Crawford,
d.
Ralph Everett
Floyd Lindsay
Josie Mary
Oran Wright
Annie Ethel
Lila Catherine
Lester Ambrose
Eunice Viola
i_ Rilla Ainslee
f James Vawter
-{ Clyde Franklin
!_ Lewis Guy
Hattie Lauretta
David Gene
Vera Camille
Claud Atherton
3. Rebecca Craw-
ford m.
Smith
4. Rachel Craw-
ford m.
Peter Smith
\"
Children
" (i) A son
(2) Nira Elizabeth
ni. i
James Catch-
ing
( Oliver C.
A dautjhter
J. Reuben
Mary Elizabeth m.
1st
Chas. Safely
2d
E. F. Otrden
Ben H.
1. Jesse Franklin
Viola Lucreta
338
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
4. Rachel Smith
(Continued)
(3) Thos. Benton
m.
Amelia Whit-
ten
(4) James Craw-
ford, d. s.
(5) John Allen m.
Minnie Martin
(6) George Robert,
d.
(7) Jesse Vawter
m.
Nellie Whitten
(8) Wm. Franklin
m.
Emma E.
Thomas
JohnH.
Nira E,
Thos. B.
Geo. L.
Viola C.
Louisa H.
Alfred W.
Jesse R.
Anna Rachel
VI
LUCY (VAWTER) CRAWFORD
Lucy Vawter, daughter of Philemon and Anna Vawter, was
born in Shelby county, Kentucky, in 1792, and died in Bartholo-
mew county, Indiana, about 1832. She was married in 181 2 to
James Maxwell Crawford ( son of James Crawford) , who was
born in Jared county, Kentucky, March 3, 1790, and died at
Hartsville, Indiana, October 13, 1856. James Maxwell Crawford
was married, second, to Mrs. Susan Lanning, and third, to Mrs.
Frances Wooden.
Children of James and Lucy (Vawter) Crawford were: Ann,
who died young, Philemon Vawter, Robert, who died at the age
of fourteen, Rebecca, Rachel and five other daughters who died
young.
I. Philemon Vawter Crawford, son of James M. and Lucy
(Vawter) Crawford, was born near Madison, Indiana, Septem-
ber 24, 1814; married in December, 1833, to Letitia S. Smith,
daughter of Henry and Margaret Smith, of Smyrna township,
Jefferson county, Indiana.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 339
Letitia (Smith) Crawford was born August 28, 181 7; died in
Crawfordsville, Oregon, June 13, 1896. Philemon Vawter Craw-
ford died at Eugene. Oregon, February i. 1901.
Life Sketch of Philemon Vawter Crawford
(Written by himself in 1882)
James Crawford, my grandfather on my father's side, was
born in 1759 and reared on or near James River, Virginia, and at
the age of sixteen years volunteered in what was known as the
Virginia hne and served three years in the Revolutionary War.
He afterward — date unknown to me — married Rebecca Ander-
son, and they reared eight children, three sons and five daughters.
My father, James Maxwell Crawford, was the third son, and was
born March 3, 1790, in Jared county, Kentucky, where my grand-
father had removed among the first settlers of that region, and
where they had many bloody encounters with the savages, my
grandfather having a full share in the troubles.
But to hasten the story: My grandfather again moved, from
Jared county, Kentucky, to Jefferson county, Indiana, in March,
1811, when my father was twenty-one years of age, and settled
within three miles of where the city of Madison now stands.
My grandfather, Philemon Vawter, was also born in Virginia,
and served in the Revolutionary War. He was an orphan boy,
married his cousin Anna Vawter, and emigrated to Kentucky in
early times and bore a full share in the Indian troubles. They
reared ten children* — five boys and five girls — my mother being
the second daughter. They moved from Kentucky to Jefferson
county, Indiana, in the year 18 10, and settled where a portion of
the city of Madison now stands. My father and mother were
married early in the year 181 2, and reared ten children — eight
girls and two boys — the oldest a girl, myself the next. I was
born September 24, 1814.
*Mr. Crawfoid is mistaken here, as Philemon Vawter, according to his own
record, had nine children.
340 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
This genealogy is given from memory, but I believe correct so
far as given.
My grandfather Crawford and family belonged to the Presby-
terian Church, but renounced their creed under the reformation
of Barton W. Stone, my father being the only one who did not
unite with the Christian Church. Being of an excitable tempera-
ment, he finally drifted into the Methodist Church.
My grandfather Vawter was a Baptist preacher, and his family
were all members of that order except my mother and two of her
brothers, who adopted the early reformation under B. W. Stone.
The two brothers, Richard and Beverly, became Christian preach-
ers.
When I advanced far enough in my early education to read,
the Bible was our common school book, and in the New Testa-
ment I got my first lessons in Christianity, and those early lessons
and impressions have shaped my course through life. At the age
of fourteen years, already being a firm believer, I concluded that
if I ever expected to appear in the likeness of Christ's resurrec-
tion I must first appear in the likeness of his death ; accordingly
I was buried with Christ in baptism and arose to walk in newness
of life, which I have aimed to do ever since; but like all other men
I have had my share of trials and temptations. I was a member
of some three congregations at different times in Jefferson county,
Indiana, the most of the time officiating as elder or deacon, and
have acted in the capacity of elder for a time in Oregon.
Having a desire to see more of the world than I had seen, and
becoming favorably impressed with the descriptions of Oregon,
I sold out my little estate in Indiana in the winter of 1850-51, and
left Madison on the 28th day of March, 1851, for Oregon. My-
self and family, and several other families with whom we traveled,
came by water from Madison to St. Joseph, Missouri, where we
fitted up teams and started overland for the far west on the first
day of May, 1851.
My family at that time consisted of myself, wife and five chil-
dren — the oldest fourteen, the youngest four years of age. We
made the long and tedious journey of twenty-two hundred miles
with an ox team in just one hundred and fifty-two days. When
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 341
we arrived in Oregon we found the Willamette valley more than
we had looked for, and all we could desire, and we are yet, after
twenty-nine years residence here, satisfied that there is no more
favored spot on the earth.
The generation in which I have lived is one that will form an
important chapter in the world's history. The application of
steam was in its infancy when I was in mine. Electricity was
known to exist, but only as a useless principle in nature. Our
harvests were then cut with the simplest hand tools only. Man
power then supplied what steam, water and horse power now
performs. Monopolies were then almost unknown, now they
threaten to rule the nation. Human slavery then shaped and con-
trolled Southern politics. For its final overthrow and the humilia-
tion of its votaries a gigantic rebellion has been inaugurated and
conquered at an enormous expense to the nation in blood and
treasure. And yet we are a great, free and prosperous nation,
notwithstanding the curse of a four years' war and the tyranny
of capital. I have witnessed all this ^luring my short space of
time here.
I enjoyed the morning of life. I witnessed the gathering storm
of rebellion ; I have seen it pass over, with all of its terrors, and
now in the evening of life all is smooth and calm again. I have
realized all I desired with regard to African slavery, and if I
could realize as much on the temperance question I would feel
ready to depart and go to where my treasure is laid up, with full
assurance of my reward.
Children of Philemon Vawter and Letitia (Smith) Crawford
were Beverly V., Henry P., Jasper V., Elvin ]., Margaret S.,
Ulric L., Otheo, Goodv.-in, Mary A., Zilpah B., Lou Serrell and
B. Vawter.
(i) Beverly V., son of Philemon and Letitia (Smith) Craw-
ford, was born in 1835 ; died in 1838.
(2) Henry Paschal, son of Philemon and Letitia Crawford,
was born May 7, 1837, near North Madison, Indiana; married in
1859 to Elizabeth Finley, a sister to the wife of Cyrus Vawter.
Henry Vawter is a farmer, living at Lapwai Station, Idaho.
342 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Children are Alice, who married Mr. Church, Philemon V. and
Richard F.
(3) Jasper Vincent, born in Jefferson county, Indiana,
August 7, 1839; married in Linn county, Oregon, June 11, 1867,
to Elizabeth N. Dunlap, who was born in Linn county, Oregon,
January 28, 1849. Jasper V. Crawford is pastor of the Christian
Church at Heppner, Oregon.
Children of Jasper V. and Elizabeth (Dunlap) Crawford :
a. William Vawter Crawford, born at Crawfordsville, Ore-
gon, March 9, 1868; married Cora B. Spencer of Morrow county,
Oregon, December 25, 1890, at Irving, Oregon. They live in
Heppner, Oregon.
Children: Virginia E.. born in 1892; Arthur, born in 1893;
Janet Content, born in 1894; J. Spencer, born in 1896; Margaret,
born in 1898; W. Vawter, Jr., born in 1900; Jasper V., Jr., born
in 1901 ; Cora May, born in 1904.
h. Letitia Jane Crawford, born at Crawfordsville, Oregon,
November i, 1869; married at Waitsburg. Washington, June 4,
1 89 1, to Lewis Guild Atherton, who was born October 30, 1863,
at Flint, Michigan. They live in Dayton, Washington, and have
two children, Rae Margaret, born at Alto, Washington, March
19, 1892, and Leona Crawford, born at Dayton, Washington,
January 21, 1894. Lewis G. Atherton is the representative of
Balfour, Guthrie & Company, buying and selling grain, fire in-
surance, etc.
c. Maud Maria Crawford, born in Waitsburg, Washington,
November 23, 1873 ; married to Charles A. Jones at Walla Walla,
Washington, August 17, 1891. Their home is in Waitsburg,
Washington. They have one child, Francis Vawter Jones, born
in 1892. Charles A. Jones was born June 5, 1865, at Shandon,
Butler county, Ohio. He is a hardware salesman.
d. Philemon Vawter Crawford, born in Waitsburg, Washing-
ton, April 16, 1876; died December 11, 1876.
e. Clyde Piatt Crawford, born in Waitsburg, Washington,
November 11, 1878; died September 29, 1882.
/. Gertrude Crawford, born in Waitsburg, Washington, Sep-
tember 28, 1880.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 343
g. Jasper Garfield Crawford, born in Waitsburg, Washing-
ton, May 4, 1882.
h. Robert Neal Crawford, born in Waitsburg, Washington,
March 14, 1884.
i. Otheo Glenn Crawford, born in Waitsburg. Washington,
March 19. 1886.
/. Jesse Dunlap Crawford, born in Waitsburg, Washington,
July 2, 1887; died November 14, 1887.
(4) Elvin J. Crawford, son of Philemon Vawter and Letitia
(Smith) Crawford, was born near Madison, Indiana, November
15, 1841 ; married, first, November 15, 1865, to Mary J. Way-
mire, who was born in Haydenhall, Oregon, and died June 11,
1866. He was married, second, November 16, 1866, to Alice A.
Adams, who was born in Galesburg, Illinois, April i, 1848, and
died May 20, 1899. He was married, third, to Mrs. Anna
(Adams) Mills, who was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, No-
vember 15, 1853.
Elvin J. Crawford is engaged in the lumber business in Los
Angeles, California, and lives at Ocean Park, California.
Children of Elvin J. and Alice (Adams) Crawford:
a. Effie Ellen Crawford, born October 14. 1872; married
November 7, 1891, to Edwin Fenton, who was born in 1867.
Children: Ralph, born December i. 1896; died January 2"/,
1899; Orin, born May 14, 1894, and Theda, born September 1.
1900. Live in Arlington. Washington.
b. Edwin Manifred Crawford, born March i. 1875; married
December 17, 1890, to Mrs. Margaret (Cartwright) Lemon, who
was born May 22, 1863. Live in Springfield, Oregon.
Children: George, born August 29, 1892, and Orville Frank-
lin, born January 8, 1896.
c. Elvin John Crawford, born August 7. 1877. Lives in Eu-
gene, Oregon.
d. Mary Letitia Crawford, born June i. 1881 ; married June
16, 1900, to James Widders Kimball, who was born October 13,
1868. They live in Arlington, Washington.
Children: Alicia, born April 8, 1901 ; Clark, born August 16,
1902, and Duane, born May 5, 1904.
344 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
e. Elina May Crawford, born May 6, 1884; married June ii^
1 901, to William Emil Forth, who was born in Chicago, Illinois,
October 6, 1872. They live in Seattle, Washington.
Children: Willma, born March 11, 1902.
/. Philemon Vawter Crawford, born July 31, 1886. Lives in
Eugene, Oregon.
g. Uleric Zwingle Crawford, born November 2, 1892. Lives
in Ocean Park, California.
(5) Margaret S., daughter of Philemon Vawter and Letitia
(Smith) Crawford, was born February 7, 1843; married to Wil-
liam Conover in 1858. Children were H. D. Conover, Waitsburg,
Washington, and O. M. Conover, of Waitsburg.
Margaret Conover married, second, H. M. Little, of Portland,
Ohio.
Children: Zilpha B.. born May 24, 1853; married in 1869 to
Valentine Robert Fuller; died May 2^,. 1884. Valentine Robert
Fuller was born in Louisville, Kentucky, February 14, 1847.
Children : Mabel, daughter of Valentine Robert and Zilpha
(Little) Fuller, was born August 14, 1874; married in 1903 to
Park Stoffer Shoff, who was born in East Germantown, Wayne
county, Indiana, September 26, 1882. They live in Santa Clara,
California. Mr. Shoff is in the wholesale and retail tobacco busi-
ness.
(6) Ulric L., son of Philemon Vawter and Letitia (Smith)
Crawford, was born February, 1845; died at Brownsville, Ore-
gon, in 1867.
(7) Otheo, son of Philemon Vawter and Letitia (Smith)
Crawford, was born in 1847; died in 1850.
(8) Goodwin, son of Philemon Vawter and Letitia (Smith)
Crawford, was born in 1859; died in infancy.
(9) Mary A., daughter of Philemon Vawter and Letitia
(Smith) Crawford, was born in 1852; married to M. A. Dunlap;
lives in Dayton, Washington.
Children of M. A. and Mary (Crawford) Dunlap:
a. John B. Dunlap, born March 3. 1875; married January i,
1903, to Graciel Olivia Tabler, who was born near Weiser, Idaho,
in 1886. They live near Kahlotus, Franklin county, Washington.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 345
h. Hattie Mabel Dunlap, born February lo, 1877; married
December 18. 1902, to Fred D. Rinehart; lives near x'^lto Station,
Columbia county, Washington.
c. Lottie Zilpba Dunlap. born April 14. 18S0; married De-
cember 10. 1896, to John A. Shields; lives on Snake river, fifteen
miles above Pittsburg Landing, Wallowa county, Oregon.
Children: Hattie Lauretta, born April i, 1898, and David
Gene, born April 7, 1900.
d. George Layton Dunlap, born April 8, 1882; lives near Alto
Station, Washington.
e. William Philemon Dunlap, born November 2, 1885; lives
near Alto Station, Washington.
/. Lou Bessie Ella Dunlap, born February 19, 1890.
g. Elvin Crawford Dunlap, born May 15, 1897.
( 10) Zilpha, daughter of Philemon Vawter and Letitia
(Smith) Crawford, was born near Crawfordsville, Oregon, in
1885; died August, 1887.
(11) Louisa Serrell, daughter of Philemon Vawter and Le-
titia (Smith) Crawford, was born August 25, 1858, ten miles east
of Brownsville, Linn county. Oregon; married August 21, 1877,
at Crawfordsville, Oregon, to Timothy Ambrose Lewis, who was
born twelve miles east of Brownsville, Oregon, August 15, 1852.
Mr. Lewis is a grain handler and makes a study of the occult
sciences, especially psychology and magnetic healing.
Children of Timothy A. and Louisa (Crawford) Lewis:
a. Arta Bell Lewis, born December 14, 1878; married Jan-
uary 20, 1902, to Wilson Blaine Stennett in Eugene, Oregon.
They live in Turner, Oregon, where Mr. Stennett is employed in
a logging camp.
Children :
(a) Vera Camille Stennett, born January 7, 1903, at Kelso,
Washington.
(b) Claud Atherton Stennett, born March 31, 1904.
h. Francis Crawford Lewis, born July 10, 1880; was run over
and killed by a railroad train on the night of September 22, 1897,
at Pendleton, Oregon. Had learned the shoemaker's trade.
mi.
346 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
c. Ralph Everett Lewis, born July 9, 1882; lives at Bend,
Crook county, Oregon. Is a shoemaker and also a sign painter.
d. Floyd Lindsay Lewis, born September 5, 1884. Is an ap-
prentice in the United States navy.
e. Josie Mary Letitia Lewis, born December 13, 1886.
/. Oran Wright Lewis, born February 15, 1889.
g. Annie Ethel Lewis, born August 14, 1890.
Ji. Lila Catherine Lewis, born March 12, 1893.
i. Lester Ambrose Lewis, born August 29, 1895.
y. Eunice Viola Lewis, born January 27, 1898.
k. Rilla Ainslee Lewis, born July 7, 1900.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis live in Oswego, Oregon.
(12) B. Vawter, son of Philemon Vawter and Letitia
(Smith) Crawford, was born near Shedd's Station, Oregon,
August 5, 1862; married October 13, 1889, at Mabel, Oregon,
to Mary F. Cowgill, who was born in Saunders county, Nebraska.
September 17, 1873.
Children :
a. James Vawter Crawford, born July 31, 1890.
h. Clyde Franklin, born October 26, 1892.
c. Lewis Guy, born 28, 1894.
B. Vawter Crawford is a carpenter, living at Shedd's Station,
Oregon.
2. Rebecca Crawford, daughter of James and Lucy (Vaw-
ter) Crawford, married a man by the name of Smith, who was a
cousin of Letitia Smith, wife of Philemon Vawter Crawford.
They moved to southern Missouri in an early day, living there
during and after the war, but all trace of the family has been lost.
3. Rachel Crawford, daughter of James and Lucy (Vawter)
Crawford, was born in Jennings county, Indiana, March 4, 1822;
married December 5. 1850, to Peter Smith, who was born April
22, 1 810, in Greenbrier county, Virginia. They crossed the plains
with an ox team in 185 1 in company with Philemon Vawter
Crawford, Cyrus Vawter, son of Beverly and William Vawter,
son of Jamieson of Milton, Kentucky. Peter Smith and wife lo-
cated near Portland, Oregon, and all of their children were born
near Portland.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
347
Peter Smith died June 13. 1889. and Rachel (Crawford)
Smith died May 22, 1891.
Children :
(i) A son, stillborn, September, 1851.
(2) Nira Elizabeth Smith, born October 16. 1852; married
to James Catching, December 25, 1872.
Children :
a. Oliver C. Catching, born March 3, 1874; died November
20, 1877.
b. A daughter, born March 3, 1878.
c. J. Reuben, born March 18, 1879.
d. Mary Elizabeth, born December 14, 1882; married Octo-
ber 21, 1902, to Charles T. Safely, who died November 11, 1902.
She married, second, Edward F. Ogden, January 7, 1904, and
died October 12, 1904, leaving a baby two weeks old, named
Viola Lucreta.
e. Ben H., born September 17, 1889.
/. Jesse Franklin, born February 11, 1893.
Mr. and Mrs. James Catching live in Ashland. Oregon.
(3) Thomas Benton Smith, son of Peter and Rachel (Craw-
ford) Smith, was born November 17, 1854; married December
25, 1887, to Amelia C. Whitten. They live in Wimer, Jackson
county, Oregon. Their children are: John H., Nira E., Thomas
B., George L., Viola C, Louisa H. and Alfred W.
(4) James Crawford, son of Peter and Rachel (Crawford)
Smith, was born August 17, 1856; died August 27, 1856.
(5) John Allen, son of Peter and Rachel (Crawford) Smith,
was born July 18, 1857; married in 1896 to Minnie Martin.
Lives at Sebastopol, California.
(6) George Robert, son of Peter and Rachel (Crawford)
Smith, Avas born April 16, 1859; died November 23, 1882.
(7) Jesse Vawter, son of Peter and Rachel (Crawford)
Smith, was born February 10, 1861 ; married April 12, 1891, to
Nellie M. Whitten and died December 29, 1892, leaving a boy,
Jesse R., who died when sixteen months old.
(8) William Franklin, son of Peter and Rachel (Crawford)
Smith, was born February 5, 1863; married February 5, 1889, to
34'^ THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Emma E. Thomas; died February 25, 1893, leaving a daughter,
Anna Rachel, born November 23, 1890, ,who Hves with her
mother, Mrs. E. E. Holcomb, of Hillsboro, Oregon.
Letter from Rachel (Crawford) Smith to William and
Frances Vawter, Written About 1852
Dear Uncle and Aunt:
I take this opportunity to write you a few lines to acknowledge
the reception of your letter, which came last Monday. We had
heard of the death of Cousin Mary and Anna, but not of the death
of Polly's babe. Cordelia died before we left. I was struck with
surprise to hear of father's marriage. He must be in his dotage.
He has got a fine woman. What changeable creatures we all are !
I was sorry to hear of the house getting burned, but was glad to
hear that Ormand's prejudice against Oregon had frozen to death
and that he had also an idea of trying to come to this country. I
do think that if he and David were here they could live much
easier than where they are. I think that I have as great a desire
for the welfare and prosperity of my relatives as anybody, but I
would advise them unless they can have a good supply of good,
strong clothing, a well-built, light two-horse wagon, and at the
least calculation, four hundred dollars when landed at St. Joe,
not to undertake the journey, unless they come as one family, or
unless the prices of provisions and cattle are lower than when
we left. But Oregon is ever worth coming to. and if they can
not make up an outfit next year, let them not get discouraged.
An old acquaintance of Mr. Smith's who could not live at all
below Madison, moved to Missouri, raised his own team and pro-
visions and came through in '47. He is now quite wealthy ; so
I would advise, if they ever expect to get able to come, to get out
of that place and get to some good cattle country, where they
may soon raise their own outfit and may be able to come in-
dependently.
What have you done with Achilles and Philemon ? You spoke
of all the rest in your letter. Where is Sarah Jane and Aunt
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 349
Nancy? I have not forgotten one of them. Mr. Smith says,
consider the interest of your sons and let them come to Oregon,
where they can be of a great deal more benefit to themselves and
to the community than where they are.
I have not heard preaching since I left Madison. They have
preaching at T. Stott's and at T. Denny's and at Portland, but for
want of a road I would be too late, as I would have to go so far
around, I know of no Baptist Church nearer than Oregon City.
There, I have understood, they have a band of musicians (wicked
men) hired to sing for the church. If this be the case, I would
like to know who expects to stand accountable for the lay mem-
bers not doing their duty, the choir or their employers?
We are all well at present. Philemon and two of the children
have had the ague, but they are well now. They live about ten
miles from us.
We learn that it has been somewhat sickly on the road this
year, grass being very scarce, though vegetables are good.
I must draw to a close. I hope you will all remember the vow
you made me when we took the parting hand. Give my love to
all that wish to hear from us. Write soon.
Rachel and Peter Smith.
To William and Frances Vawter.
(The above letter was found among the papers of William
Vawter after his death.)
VII.
NANCY VAWTER5
(Philemon, 4 David, ^ John, 2 John^)
m.
ALEXANDER LEWIS
Children*
1. David m.
Ann Grinstead
2. Anna m. Lewis
P. Grinstead
Grandchildren'
( Nine chi
) dead e
Idren (all
except one)
3, Charles m.
Charlotte Parks
4. Martha m.
Elias Conger
(i) Marshall
(2) Wm. Wirt
(3) Nancy
(1) Arietta m.
W. R. Umen-
setter
{2) Maria L. m.
C. S. Tiffany
(3) Edwin m.
Effie Buchanan
G. Grandchil-
DREN»
Clara R.
Charles H., d.
i^ Edith A., d.
C Nin
^ Fra
aE.
Francis O.
] Noch
1^ Pauline
ildren
G. G. Grandchil-
dren®
VII
NANCY (VAWTER) LEWIS
Nancy Vawter, daughter of Philemon and Anna Vawter, was
born about 1793 ; was married about 1814, to Alexander Lewis, a
widower; died April 2, 1855. Their children were four in num-
ber : David, Anna, Charles and Martha.
I. David was born November 9, 1816; was married about
1839, to Ann Grinstead, a sister of Lewis P. Grinstead. They
had nine children, two of whom were named Bushrod and Sarah
Frances. They lived in Pinon, Lincoln county, Kansas. In a
letter dated May 2^, 1885, from David Lewis to his cousin
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 35 1
John M. Vawter, in Timpson, Texas, David Lewis says : "I feel
the effects of age, having completed my sixty-eighth year on the
9th of November last. My wife, who was seventy years old on
the 8th of November, has been may faithful companion for more
than forty-five years. Our youngest daughter, the youngest of
our children, died last summer, and the next youngest, a son, who
is married and lives in the neighborhood, is the only one remain-
ing of our nine children."
2. Anna Lewis married Lewis P. Grinstead, who, after her
death, married Rhoda A. Hunter. Anna died about 1850, and
Lewis P. Grinstead about 1875. Two of their sons, Marshall
and William Wirt were soldiers in the Sixth Indiana Regiment in
the Civil War. Both are now dead. Nancy, an only daughter,
is still living.
3. Charles Lewis, son of Alexander and Nancy (Vawter)
Lewis, was born at Vernon, Indiana, November 10, 1821 ; mar-
ried March 6, 1845, to Charlotte Parks, the twin sister of Sarah
Parks, who married Jesse R. Vawter. Charlotte (Parks) Lewis
was born at Somerset, Pulaski county, Kentucky, August 31,
1822, and died September 29, 1900. Charles Lewis died Septem-
ber I, 1865. He was a farmer and a teacher.
Children :
( 1 ) Arietta Lewis, born April i, 1847 ; married W. R. Umen-
setter. They live near North Vernon, Indiana. Their children
are : Clara R., Charles H., dead, Edith A., dead.
(2) Maria L. Lewis, born January 31, 1850; married C. S.
Tiffany, of North Vernon, Indiana.
(3) Edwin Lewis, born April 18, 1854; married Effie
Buchanan. They live at North Vernon, Indiana. Their chil-
dren are Nina E., Francis O. and Pauline.
4. Martha Lewis married Elias Conger, a deaf mute, a brother
of Rhoda A. Conger. She died young and left no children.
VIII.
ELIZABETH VAWTERs
(Philemon^, David », John'^, Johni)
(1 798- 1 886)
m.
JAMES GLOVER
(1793-1856)
Children^
Grandchildren'
G. Grandchil-
G. G. Grandchil
DREN«
DREN"
I. Nancy Glover m.
(i) James A.
ISt
James Coleman
(2) Lucinda
^ (3) Thomas
2d .
Thos. Baxter
(4) David
Ida ra.
' (1) Samuel W. m.
Mclntyre; d.
1st
Ira, d.
Mary F. Ball
Samuel, d.
Thomas H., d.
2d .
Lottie Staples ■
Ella
Susie
(2) Stephen A., d.
(3) John m. 1
W. H.
Kate Staples i
Minnie
2. Ann Glover m.
Thomas West
' T. H.
Elenorah m.
Reed; d.
(4) Sarah m.
George Giltner '
Florence
William A.
Charles T.
Charlotte
Cordelia
Mea
(5) Elizabeth, d.
^ George
(6) Mollie A. m.
James B.
J. F. King
) Addie A.
r
(i) Catherine m.
(I) Catherine m.
3. Sarah Glover m. I , u 1 d ■(
Achilles West 1 J^^^^b J. Payne
r Ira William
Myrtie Maud
Sarah Alice m. | Elraa Pearl
Wm. McDonald -{ Mamie Catherine
Clarence R.
George E.
L Lottie J.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
353
3. Sarah G. West
(Continued)
(i) Catherine
Payne
(Continued)
Edward M. m.
Maggie J. Palmer
(2) James L. m.
Aramantha
Vawter
(3) Milton S. m.
ist
Elizabeth Blair
2d
Mary McFar-
land
(4) J. Silas m.
Theresia King
(5) Lizzie A. m.
T. B. Carney
(6) William M. m.
1st
Eva Grinstead
2d
Martha Mix
3d
Mrs. Martha
Clellen
(7) J. Judson m.
Clara A. Clark
4. Elliott Glover m.
Melita Barnett
(8) Emma E. m.
I. Charles E.Hall
f (i) Maggie m.
Fox
(2) James m.
Tucker
-{ (3) Indiana m. .
McKey
(4) William
I (5) Philemon
L (6) Samuel
'5. David Glover m. ( (i) Florence m.
Mary E. Hunter / Newell
GoldieF.,d.
Mary Catherine
Eva Lena
Frank J.
1^ Amy May
Lucinda Eveline
m.
Allen B. Hutsell
Nellie May m.
UthoG. Wright
Sarah Ethel
Charles William
Cora m. G. W.
Vandergrift
No children
Lillian Rose
Edward
Elma A..d.
Charles W. m.
Lala Kuhn
Dessie m.
Corwin Bowling
Sylvia
Eldo K. m
Grace Millhouse
Silas W.
Emma L., d.
William H.
Jesse M.
David C.
C. Mable
Anna May m.
Sylvester Adams
Arthur J.
E Roy
Blanche E.
f Alva, d.
J Amy Leo
I Tressa May
I. Emory Edward
^ Opal
^ Robert W.
Esther, d.
Ethel, d.
3 Margaret Marie, d.
( Charles H.
f Monroe
\ Ralph Arvii
l^ Guy Cecil
J Mary Jessamine
Myron E.
354 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
VIII
ELIZABETH (VAWTER) GLOVER
Elizabeth (Betsy) Vavvter, daughter of Philemon and Anna
Vawter, was born in Woodford county, Kentucky, March i,
1798; married in Jefferson county, Indiana, June 24, 1813, to
James Glover, a Baptist minister, who was born in West Vir-
ginia, August 14, 1792. They lived in Jefferson county, Indiana,
until the death of James Glover at Marble Hill, Indiana, July
3, 1856. Elizabeth Glover died at Vernon, Indiana, August 6,
1886.
The children of James and Elizabeth (Vawter) Glover were:
Nancy, Ann, Sarah, Elliott and David.
I
Nancy (Glover) Baxter
Nancy Glover, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Vawter)
Glover, was born March 12, 1814; married, first, James Coleman,
and after his death, Thomas Baxter. They lived and died at
Marble Hill, Indiana.
Children were : James A. Coleman, Lucinda Coleman, Thomas
Coleman and David Baxter. All are dead. There was one
granddaughter, who went to Tennessee.
Ann (Glover) West
Ann Glover, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Vawter)
Glover, was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, May 27, 181 6;
married December 2, 1831, at Marble Hill, Indiana, to Thomas
West, a farmer, who was born in Jefferson county, Indiana,
November 14, 1809. Thomas West died near Otto, Clark county,
Indiana, December 2, 1888, and Ann, his wife, died December
26, 1888, at same place.
Children of Thomas and Ann (Glover) West were Samuel,,
Stephen, John, Sarah, Elizabeth and Mollie A.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 355
(i) Samuel W. West was born March 6, 1833; married
November 19, 1858, to Mary F. Ball. Their children were:
a. Ida, born June 3. i860; married a Mclntyre; died De-
cember 22, 1883.
b. Ira, born August i, 1862; died February 20, 1883.
c. Samuel, born June 16, 1864; died January 26, 1866.
d. Thomas H., born December 9, 1866; died June 28, 1895.
Samuel W. West was married, second, to Lottie Staples, who
was born March 10, 1847. They live at Nabbs, Indiana. Mr.
West is crippled by a gunshot wound which he received in the
arjny and is unable to engage in any regular work.
Children of Samuel W. and Lottie (Staples) West:
a. Ella, born October 10, 1872.
b. Susie, born January 22, 1874.
(2) Stephen A. West was born November 26, 1834; died
February 19, 1835.
(3) John West was born December 7, 1836 ; married October
3, 1872, to Kate Staples, who was born October 10, 1849. John
West died August 18, 1890.
Children :
a. W. H. West, born July 9, 1873.
b. Minnie, born September 10, 1876.
(4) Sarah West was born March 31, 1838; married in i860,
near Otto, Indiana, to George Giltner, who was born June 3,
1818, and died February 14, 1900. Sarah Giltner died December
26, 1877.
Children of George and Sarah (West) Giltner:
a. T. H. Giltner, born May 29, 1861.
b. Elenorah Giltner, born December 31, 1862; married a
Reed; died November 27, 1901.
c. Florence Giltner, born August 29, 1864.
d. William A. Giltner, born April 17, 1866.
e. Charles T. Giltner, born June 18, 1868.
/. Charlotte Giltner, born May 17. 1870.
g. Cordelia Giltner, born June 14, 1872.
h. Mea Giltner, born May 7, 1874.
i. George Giltner, Jr., born August 21, 1876.
356 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
(5) Elizabeth West, born September 11, 1840; died May 26,.
1844.
(6) Mollie A. West was born May 12, 1844; married Octo-
ber 17, 1872, to J. F. King, a farmer, who was born September
20, 1846. They Hve at Marble Hill, Indiana.
Children :
a. James B. King, born July 20, 1873.
h. Addie A. King, born February 14, 1875.
Sarah (Glover) West
Sarah Glover, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Vawter)
Glover, was born October 29, 181 8; married June 7, 1838,
in Jefferson county, Indiana, to Achilles West, who was born in
Jefferson county, Indiana, February 29, 181 6. They moved to
Jennings county, Indiana, in i860, where Sarah West died, Jan-
uary 25, 1891, and Achilles West died September 10, 1892.
Their children were Catherine, James, Milton S., J. Silas,
Lizzie A., William M., J. Judson, Emma E., and Charles J.
(i) Catherine West, daughter of Achilles and Sarah West,
was born February 4, 1841, in Jefferson county, Indiana; mar-
ried in Jefferson county, Indiana, by her grandfather, James
Glover, March 13, 1856, to Jacob J. Payne, who was born in
Jefferson county, Indiana, November 20, 1831. Catherine West
Payne died in Jefferson county, Indiana, April 23, 1863.
Children :
a. Sarah Alice Payne was born in Jefferson county, Indiana,
December 24, 1857; married April 20, 1877, to William E. Mc-
Donald, who was born December 15, 1854, and died January 2,
1898, in Jefferson county, Indiana. Mrs. Alice McDonald lives
at Hanover, Indiana.
Children :
(a) Ira William McDonald, born in Jefferson county, Indi-
ana, October 2, .
(b) Myrtie Maud McDonald, born in Clark county, Indiana,
February 17, 1880.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 357
(c) Elma Pearl McDonald, born in Jefferson county, Indi-
ana, January 15, 1882.
(d) Mamie Catherine McDonald, born in Jefferson county,
Indiana, September 13, 1885.
(e) Clarence R. McDonald, born in Clark county, Indiana,
May 20, 1888.
(f) George E. McDonald, born in Jefferson county, Indiana,
September 5, 1891.
(g) Lottie J. McDonald, born in Jefferson county, Indiana,
December 9, 1897.
b. Edward Melton Payne was born in Jefferson county, In-
diana, June 10, i860; married November 14, 1886. to Maggie
J. Palmer, who was born in Trimble county, Kentucky, April 14,
1866. Edward Payne is a farmer, living near Nabbs, Indiana.
Children :
(a) Goldie F. Payne, born November 18, 1887; died March
20, 1891.
(b) Mary Catherine Payne, born November 3, 1889.
(c) Eva Lena Payne, born September 29, 1891.
(d) Frank J. Payne, born September 29, 1893.
(e) Amy May Payne, born January 14, 1901. (All born in
Clark county, Indiana. )
c. Lucinda Eveline Payne was born in Jefferson county, In-
diana, November 4, 1862; married January 31, 1883, to Allen
Blooford Hutsell, a farmer, who was born in Jefferson county,
Indiana, December 3, i860. They live at Hanover, Indiana.
Children :
(a) Alva Hutsell, born December 19, 1883; died January 4.
1884.
(b) Amy Leo Hutsell, born July 16, 1885.
(c) Tressa May Hutsell, born December 24, 1891.
(d) Emory Edward Hutsell, born July 20, 1895. (All born
in Clark county, Indiana.)
(2) James L. West, son of Achilles and Sarah (Glover)
West, was born March 23, 1843; married February i, 1876, to
Aramantha M. Vawter; died February 7, 1891. (For children
see record of Aramantha (Vawter) West.)
358 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
(3) Milton S. West, son of Achilles and Sarah (Glover)
West, was born in Jefferson comity, Indiana, April 20, 1846;
married February 2, 1871, to Elizabeth V. Blair, daughter of
Thomas and Lucinda (Vawter) Blair, who was born July 17,
1845, and died January 2^, 1875.
Children :
a. Cora West was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, Septem-
ber 25, 1872; married December 18, 1895, to G. W. Vandergrift,
who was born May 29, 1872. They live in Anderson, Indiana.
Mr. Vandergrift is a fireman and stationary engineer.
Children :
(a) Esther Vandergrift, born May 14, 1897; died April 29,
1902.
(b) Ethel Vandergrift, born February 19, 1903 ; died August
II, 1903.
Milton S. West was married, second. May 6, 1896, to Mary
McFarland, of Wapakoneta, Ohio, who died November 19, 1900.
Milton West was engaged in the mercantile business until the
death of his second wife. Since that time he has retired from
business and is living with his daughter in Anderson, Indiana.
(4) J. Silas West, son of Achilles and Sarah (Glover) West,
was born April 18, 1850; married August 4, 1874, to Theresia
King, who was born September 8, 1851, in Belleview, Jefferson
county, Indiana. They had one child, Lillian Rose, who was born
January 23, 1876, near Vernon, Indiana. J. Silas West died
July 29, 1897, at Ezra, Jennings county, Indiana. Mrs. Theresia
West and daughter live near Madison, Indiana, R. R. No. 5.
(5) Lizzie A. West, daughter of Achilles and Sarah ( Glover)
West, was born December 21, 1853; married T. B. Carney in
Vernon, Indiana, March 16, 1871 ; died near Butlerville, Indiana,
February 26, 1877. They had one child, Edward, who was born
April 13, 1872.
(6) William M. West, son of Achilles and Sarah (Glover)
West, was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, April 10, 1855;
married, first, March 4, 1875, to Eva Grinstead, who was born
in Jennings county, Indiana, November 26, 1854, and died April
I, 1886.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 359
Children :
a. Elma A. West, born March, 1876; died May, 1881.
b. Charles W. West, born March 30, 1878; married June 19,
1 90 1, to Lala Kuhn, who was born January 20, 1880. Charles
W. West is a street-car motorman, living at Indianapolis, Indiana.
Children :
(a) Margaret Marie, born February 19, 1902; died July 27,
1902.
(b) Charles H., born March 10, 1905.
c. Dessie West, born July 11, 1880; married November,
1897, to Corwin Bowling, a farmer, living near Veedersburg, In-
diana.
Children :
(a) Monroe Bowling, born February, 1899.
(b) Ralph Arvil Bowling, born March 14, 1901.
(c) Guy Cecil Bowling, born October, 1903.
d. Sylvia A. West, born March i, 1886. Since the death of
her mother she has made her home with her aunt, Mrs. J. Silas
West, who lives near Madison, Indiana.
William West was married, second, November, 1886, to
Martha I. Mix, who was born November 16. 1854; died March,
1 89 1. No children.
William West married, third, Mrs. Martha (Hosea) Clellen,
who was born in Washington county, Indiana, November 15,
1 85 1. William West is a carpenter. He lives in Indianapolis,
Indiana.
(7) J- Judson West, son of Achilles and Sarah (Glover)
West, was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, February 17, 1858;
married December 11, 1878. to Clara A. Clark, who was born
in Jennings county, Indiana, July 26, 1859. J. Judson West is a
contractor for railroad work, cross ties, bridge timbers, etc. He
lives in Anderson, Indiana.
Children :
o. Eldo R. West, born in Jennings county, Indiana, Septem-
ber 27, 1879; married September 4, 1901, to Grace A. Millhouse,
who was born in Jennings county, Indiana, October 28, 1883.
360 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Eldo R. West is teaching school. He lives near Butlerville, In-
diana.
Children :
(a) Mary Jessamine West, born in Jennings county, Indiana,
July 18, 1902.
(b) Myron E. West, born in Jennings county, Indiana, No-
vember 30, 1903.
b. Silas W. West was born in Jennings county, Indiana,
February 27, 1882. He lives in Covington, Ky., where he is em-
ployed as foreman of construction work.
c. Emma L. West was born in Jennings county, Indiana,
February 4, 1884; died February 17, 1884.
d. William H. West was born in Jennings county, Indiana,
March 4, 1886. Lives in Foster, Indiana, where he is employed
by his father.
c. Jesse M. West was born in Jennings county, Indiana, Sep-
tember 21, 1888.
/. David C. West was born in Fountain county, Indiana, Au-
gust 19, 1894.
g. C. Mabel West was born in Jennings county, Indiana,
July 9, 1900.
(8) Emma E. West, daughter . of Achilles and Sarah
(Glover) West, was born in Jennings county, Indiana, July 26,
i860; married to Charles E. Hall, who was born in Jefferson
county, Indiana, June 20, 1847.
Children :
a. Anna May Hall, born in Jennings county, Indiana, June
II, 1882; married February 2, 1902, to Sylvester Adams, who
was born May 10, 188 1.
b. Arthur J. Hall, born in Jennings county, Indiana, July 26,
1888.
c. E. Roy Hall, born November 16, 1894, in Jennings county,
Indiana.
d. Blanche E. Hall, born March 26, 1897, in Jennings county,
Indiana.
Mr. and Mrs. Hall live in Anderson, Ind., where Mr. Hall and
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 361
son Arthur and Sylvester Adams are employed by the American
Steel and Wire Company.
(9) Charles J. West, son of Achilles and Sarah (Glover)
West, born August 13, 1863; died May 14, 1865.
Elliott V. Glover
Elliott V. Glover, son of James and Elizabeth (Vawter)
Glover, was born July 17, 1820 ; married Melita Barnett at Marble
Hill, Indiana. Both died in Madison, Indiana.
Children : Maggie, who married a Fox ; James, who married
a Tucker ; Indiana, who married a McKey ; William ; Philemon ;
Samuel. Their location is unknown.
5
David T. Glover
David J. Glover, son of James and Elizabeth (Vawter)
Glover, was born February 14, 1838; married September 12,
1 86 1, to Mary E. Hunter at North Vernon, Indiana; died Febru-
ary 6, 1863. His widow went west, and her location is unknown.
A daughter, Florence, married a Newell. She was at Seattle,.
Washington, in 1900.
IX.
DAVID VAWTER5
(Philemon*, David 3, John'^, Johni)
(1800- I 845)
m.
LUCINDA GLOVER
(1805-1857)
Children^
Grandchildren'
r (i) Sarah Julia m.
Major D.
Sterrett
Alexander Lewis
Vawter m.
Martha Weir
2. Amanda M.
Vawter m.
Francisco Lewis
^ (2) A. Lewis, Jr., d.
[ (I) Henry
(2) Emma
-{ (3) Sarah
John M. Vawter
m.
Mary Durkee
{4) Mary Ida
(5) Annie L.
(i) Edwin m.
Vesta Sears
(2) Thomas M. m.
Nolle Carter
(3) Mary Luna m.
Lemuel M.
Vickers
G. Grandchil-
dren*
Mary Alphene m.
Edward Marshall
Mattie E. m.
Seaborn Bell
Robert Alphonso
m. Etta Davis
Carrie Belle
l^ Davie Lewise
f Sears
■{ Ned
(_ Eugene
May
Alexander J.
Luna K.
Lewis Orin
Octavia J.
Carter
D. Lee
Wesson
r John Francis
I Lucy Octavia
J Mary Elizabeth
I Gladys Lee, d.
I Thomas Edwin
G.G. Grandchil-
dren'
' Julia Ferrel
Hennie De
Esther Lee
Mattie B.
( Donie Dowel
Robert Ashby
Andrew L.
Major T.
Junior B.
AUie
Etta Roberta
Mead Dowel
l^ Wm. Ernest
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
363
3. John M. Vawter
(Continued)
4. Louisa Vawter
m.
Edward Fink
f Ettie Eugenia
(4) George Lewis Walter Lewis
m. J David Wyatt, d.
Ettie Dicker- 1 Matie Octavia
son I Junie Magnolia
L John Ferris
(5) Frances Louisa
m.
J. R. Noble
(6) Ella Octavia m.
A. S. Victory
I (7) Katie King
(i) One child, d.
5. David M. Vawter f (i) Martha
en- ■{ Lucinda m.
Nancy Raycroft L J.W.Cooke
6. Martha Vawter
m.
J.C. White
■) Four ch
ildren
John Vawter
Julian Bennett
David Vawter, d.
IX
DAVID VAWTER
David Vawter, the youngest son of Philemon and Anna Vaw-
ter, was born in Kentucky, January 21, 1800; married April 23,
1823, to Lucinda Glover, the sister of James Glover, who married
David's sister Elizabeth.
David Vawter traded down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers,
running to Natchez and New Orleans. In 1832 he built his first
steamboat, the "Bravo." It ran between Natchitoches, Louisiana,
on the Red river, and Natchez or New Orleans, as the freight paid
best ; but gradually Natchez was left out. He afterwards owned
a number of steamboats running on the Mississippi and as high
up the Red river as they could go. When he gave up the steam-
boat business he sold his Red river home and removed to Texas
in May, 1844, where he bought a large tract of land.
David Vawter died July 13, 1845. Lucinda (Glover) Vawter
was born Jyly 8, 1805, and died December 20, 1857.
364 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Alexander Lewis Vawter
Alexander Lewis Vawter, the son of David and Lucinda
(Glover) Vawter, was born January 24, 1824, in New York;
he was married in 1848 to Martha Weir, who was born in Mis-
sissippi, February 14, 1827, and died in Rusk county, Texas, Sep-
tember 5, i860.
A. Lewis Vawter was engaged in the mercantile business. He
died in Grand Bluff, Texas, January 31, 1856.
Children of A. Lewis and Martha (Weir) Vawter were:
Sarah Julia and A. Lewis, Jr.
( I ) Sarah Julia Vawter was born in Grand Bluff, Texas,
May 26, 1850; married January 19, 1870, to Dr. Major Dowel
Sterrett. They live in Beckville, Texas. Dr. Sterrett was born
June 27, 1840, in Columbiana, Alabama.
Children of Dr. M. D. and Sarah Julia (Vawter) Sterrett:
a. Mary Alphene Sterrett, born October 27, 1870, at Grand
Bluff, Texas; married 1891 to Edward Marshall, of Texarkana,
Texas.
Children :
(a) Julia Ferrell Marshall, born October i, 1892.
(b) Hennie De Marshall, born October 16, 1896.
(c) Esther Lee Marshall, born August 10, 1898.
(d) Mattie B. Marshall, born July 24, 1902.
b. Mattie E. Sterrett, born February 21, 1872, at Grand
Bluff, Texas; married July 14, 1892, to Seaborn Bell, a merchant
of Tenaha, Texas.
Children :
(a) Donie Dowel Bell, born March 13, 1893, at Beckville,
Texas.
(b) Robert Ashby Bell, born September 30, 1895, at Beck-
ville, Texas.
(c) Andrew L. Bell, born October 19, 1897, at Tenaha,
Texas.
(d) Major T. Bell, born October 29, 1899, at Tenaha, Texas.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 365
(e) Junior B. Bell, born June 27, 1901, at Tenaha. Texas.
(f) Allie Bell, born April 16, 1904, at Tenaha, Texas.
c. Robert Alphonzo Sterrett was born October 26. 1876, at
Grand Bluff, Texas; married in 1900 to Etta Davis, of Jefferson,
Texas. Robert A. Sterrett is a physician, living at Boxwood,
Texas.
Children :
(a) Etta Roberta Sterrett, born November 5, 1902, at Jef-
ferson, Texas.
(b) Mead Dowel Sterrett, born June 3,, 1904, at Jefferson.
Texas.
d. Carrie Belle Sterrett, born October 4, 1885, at Mahan,
Texas. Is now a student in the senior class of the Girls' Industrial
College of Art at Denton, Texas.
e. Davie Lewise Sterrett, born February 22, 1892, at Beck-
ville, Texas.
(2) A. Lewis Vawter, Jr., was born August 16, 1856; died
February 14, 1863.
Amanda (Vawter) Lewis
Amanda Melvina Vawter, daughter of David and Lucinda
(Glover) Vawter, was born February 24, 1826; married August
14, 1845, at Grand Bluff, Texas, to Francisco Lewis, who was
born May 5, 1822, in Franklin City, Alabama. Francisco Lewis
was a merchant for the greater portion of his life.
Children of Francisco and Amanda (Vawter) Lewis:
(i) Henry F. Lewis was born October 31, 1846, at Grand
Bluff, Panola county, Texas. Lives at Shreveport, Louisiana.
(2) Emma Lewis was born Octobec 15, 1848, at Grand Bluff,
Texas; married, first, December 24, 1868. to G. W. Jones.
Children :
a. Merril Jones, born October 10, 1869,
h. Mary Jones, born July 29, 1872.
c. Emma Jones, born March 15, 1875.
d. Lizzie Jones, born February 10, 1878.
i
366 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
e. Mabel Jones, born April 28, 1883.
/. Harry Jones, born September 27, 1886.
Emma (Lewis) Jones was married, second, October 15, 1890,
to J. P. Elder, who is proprietor of the East Texas Nursery, Mar-
shall, Texas.
(3) Sarah E. Lewis was born January 21, 1851.
(4) Mary Ida Lewis was born May 22, 1853, at Grand Bluff,
Texas; married March 5, 1874, to A. H. Waugh. They had one
child, Henry Waugh, born January 29, 1875.
Ida (Lewis) Waugh was married, second, February, 1882,
to James McCann.
a. James W. McCann, born August 29, 1883.
h. Ethel P. McCann, born January 11, 1886.
(5) Annie L. Lewis, born August 31, 1855.
John M. Vawter
John M. Vawter, son of David and Lucinda (Glover) Vawter,
was born March 25, 1826; married November 23, 1850, to Mary
G. Durkee (daughter of William L. and Marian (Weir) Durkee),
who was born August 10, 1836. J. M. Vawter and family lived
at Grand Bluff, Panola county, Texas, for many years after his
marriage in the old home of his father, which was burned in 1865.
While he lived in the Bandera Mountains, forty miles west of
San Antonio, he, for years, amid drought and Mormon opposi-
tion and persecution, carried on a Sabbath-school, which was at
times the only religious service held in that part of the country.
George Lewis Vawter, a son, says that he does not think an
account of their family would be complete without the mention
of "Uncle Allen," the old negro slave, who ran the Grand Bluff
ferry boat for fifteen years as a slave and many years as a free
man. On account of debt, his father and mother and himself
were afraid of being sold apart, and so his mother sent him to
Lewis Vawter to see if he wouldn't buy them for the David Vaw-
ter estate. This he did, and thus "Uncle Allen," "Aunt Lydie"
and "Uncle Dick" came into the family. "They helped in the
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 367
care of my mother's family," said G. L. Vawter, "but it was in
the contract of sale that 'Aunt Lydie' was never to ha\'e to 'wash
clothes.' "
John M. Vawter has been a merchant and a farmer. He is now
retired, and he and his wife live in Timpson, Texas.
John M. Vawter and wife had twelve children. Those living
are :
( 1 ) Edwin Vawter was born at Grand Bluff, Texas, May 7,
1855; married March, 1883, to Vesta Sears, who was born Au-
gust 29, 1848, in Marshall, Texas. Lives in Marshall, Texas.
Children :
a. Sears, born May 15, 1884, in Marshall, Texas.
b. Edwin, born August i, 1887, in Harrison county, Texas.
c. Eugene, born October 18, 1892, in Harrison county, Texas.
(2) Thomas M., son of John M. and Mary (Durkee) Vaw-
ter, was born at Grand Bluff, Panola county, Texas, May 8,
1857; married March 13, 1881, in Rusk county, Texas, to Nolie
Carter, who was born February 4, 1857. Thomas M. Vawter is
a farmer, living near Marshall, Texas.
Children :
a. John Thomas Vawter was born in Rusk county, Texas,
April 18, 1882. He is a railroad fireman.
h. May Vawter, born in Panola, Texas, January 28. 1884;
graduated at Baylor College, Belltown, Texas, in June, 1905.
c. Alexander J. Vawter, born in Bandera county, Texas, Jan-
uary 18, 1886. Is bookkeeper for a newspaper company in
Marshall. Texas.
d. Luna K. Vawter, born in Bandera county, Texas, August
29, 1887; is at school at Timpson, Texas.
e. Lewis Orin Vawter, born in Bandera county, Texas,
August 21, 1889.
/. Octavia J. Vawter, born in Bandera county, Texas. March
29, 1891.
g. Carter Vawter, born in Hall county, Texas, August 13,
1893.
h. D. Lee Vawter, born May 23, 1900, in Harrison county,
Texas.
I
368 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
i. Wesson Vawter, born near Marshall, Texas, February 13,
1904; died March 13, 1904.
(3) Mary Luna Vawter, daughter of John M. and Mary
(Durkee) Vawter, was born at Grand Bluff, Panola county,
Texas, July 13, 1859; attended the Masonic Female Institute at
Marshall Texas; married at Grand Bluff, Texas, December 12,
1883, to Lemuel M. Vickers, of Hughes' Springs, Texas, who
was born in Alabama, March 4, 1851. They live in Hunt county,
Texas, four miles south of Greenville.
Children :
a. John Francis Vickers, born at Hughes' Springs, February
17, 1886.
b. Lucy Octavia Vickers, born at Hughes' Springs, May 4,
1888.
c. Mary Elizabeth Vickers, born at Hughes' Springs, Feb-
ruary 24, 1 89 1.
d. Gladys Lee Vickers, born at Hughes' Springs, August 3,
1893 ; died at Neola, Hunt county, Texas. November 21, 1899.
c. Thomas Edwin Vickers, born at Neola, Texas, June 27,
1896.
/. William Ernest Vickers, born at Neola, Texas, November
24, 1901.
(4) George Lewis Vawter. son of John M. and Mary
(Durkee) Vawter, was born November 22. 1862. at Grand
Bluff, Panola county, Texas, in the old homestead of his grand-
father, David Vawter. He was married at Pipecreek, Texas,
May 25, 1892, to Junie Ettie Dickerson (daughter of Wyatt and
Rebecca (Poyner) Dickerson), who was born near Tecumseh,
Johnson county, Nebraska, March 8, 1870. George Lewis Vaw-
ter was a bridge builder by trade, but while in California in 1888
his arm was broken and he has since been unable to follow the
bridge business. At Pipecreek he is postmaster, merchant,
farmer and ranchman, and is much interested in the question of
storm-water irrigation for the part of Texas where he lives.
Children :
a. Ettie Eugenia Vawter, born April 25, 1893.
b. Walter Lewis Vawter, born September 27, 1895.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 369
c. David Wyatt Vawter, born December i, 1896 ; died August
26, 1899.
d. Matie Octavia Vawter, born September 6, 1898.
e. Junie Magnolia Vawter, born September 19, 1900.
/. John Ferris Vawter, born March 7, 1904.
( 5 ) Frances Louisa Vawter, daughter of John M. and Mary
(Durkee) Vawter, was born in Marshall, Texas, January 7,
1867 : married January 20, 1890. to John B. Noble, who was born
February 7, 1863, and died December 10, 1898. Mrs. Noble and
children live at Timpson, Texas.
Children :
a. John Vawter Noble, born October 5, 1891.
b. Julian Bennett Noble, born January 30, 1896.
(6) Ella Octavia Vawter, daughter of John M. and Mary
(Durkee) Vawter, was born May 31, 1872; married September
9, 1903, to A. S. Victory, a log contractor for a lumber company,
who was born February 14, 1868.
(7) Katie King Vawter, daughter of John M. and Mary
(Durkee) Vawter, was born May 15, 1877.
4
Louisa (Vawter) Fink
Louisa Vawter, daughter of David and Lucinda (Glover)
Vawter, was born February 9, 1830; married in 1845 to Edward
Fink. They had one child who died in 1863. Both Edward Fink
and Louisa, his wife, are dead.
5
David M. Vawter
David M. Vawter, son of David and Lucinda (Glover) Vaw-
ter, was born in Madison, Indiana, January 17, 1833; married
July 25, 1858, to Nancy Raycroft, who was born in Tennessee,
January 12, 1837. David M. Vawter was a physician.
370 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Children :
(i) Martha Lucmda (called "Chic"), married January 6,
1897, to J. W. Cooke, of Pembroke. Kentucky.
Children :
a. David Vawter Cooke, born October 16, 1897; died De-
cember 22, 1903. y
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Cooke live at Carthage, Missouri, where al
Mr. Cooke is cashier of the First National Bank.
Martha (Vawter) White
Martha Vawter, daughter of David and Lucinda (Glover) ll
Vawter, was born September 16, 1836; married December, 1852,
to J. C. White. They lived in Austin, Texas. They have four
children.
RUSSELL VAWTER
(1755 )
m.
MARY SPARKS
(1757 )
Children
1. John Vawter
2. Elizabeth
Vawter
Grandchildren
(i) James M.
(2) John Russell
r (I) John
3. Beverly Vawter -j (2) Allan
J , , , I (3) William
4. Infant, d. ^-^
5. Nancy Vawter
6. Bradford Vawter
[ (I) Geo. T. m.
Charlotte
Vogler
7. Chadwell Vawter
m.
Susan Taylor
G. Grandchil-
dren
Joseph Early
Vawter m.
1st
Polly Larimore
(2) Pauline
(3) Beverly S.
(4) William
(5) Matilda
(6) Sophronia
(7) Josiah
(i) Washington R.
(2) Thomas S. m.
Nancy
Chapman
(3) Edith P.
(4) Patsy A.
f Geo. W.
John M.
Samuel M. m.
Sarah McShane
Rosalie m.
R. A. Gordon
Emma S. m.
Katcliffe
John
f Martha, d.
-{ William M. m.
1^ Nancy J. Burk
(5) Joseph M. m.
Mary L.
Furgeson
^
f Trueman C. ra.
I Myrta Bourne
George Early
Ray Partee m.
Rose Smith
^ Anna Mae
G. G. Grandchil-
dren
Frank
Fred Mc.
Charles A.
Harold H.
Isaac
^ Homer G.
Ida m.
Eugene Smith
(Jennievee)
Emma E. m.
Charles Baxter
(Clara Ermine,
d.
Mildred May,d.
Dow Vawter)
John Wm. m.
Claudine C.
Fowler
(Ara Bertie
Maud Illinois
Earl V.)
Clare
372
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Joseph Early
Vawter
(Conlinued)
2d
Nancy Smith
(6) Nancy A.
(7) James J. m.
Susan Hol-
landsworth
(8)
William
DeWitt
(9) Katy A.
(10) Amanda J.
(11) Sallie K.
(i2) Allen Vaul
Elizabeth
Sinclair
(13) Mary P.
(14) John E.
Joseph T. m.
Bedie Dewbre
Allen v., d.
Mary J. m.
James Hagan
Amanda S. m.
Joseph M.
Sympson
Nancy W., d.
Mintie B. m.
f William J.
j DoraB.
■i Maude, d.
j Evie L.
i^ Annie
( Ibb
\ Vir
aB.
gil Vawter
f Ingram
\ Electa, d.
1^ Jennievee
f Ada S.
I Dewey S.
Eva A.
e
I
Benjamin Hardin ] Nelli
I Ray
i_ Irene
Earl
May
(15) Josephus R.
m. \
Mary Williams
(16) Beverly P. m.
Maria L.
Graves
Julia A. m.
Ansel S. Palraore
Frank B.
Joseph Thomas, d.
Margaret E. m.
W. A. Reynolds
Walter Alien
Josephine Allen m.
O. L. Settle
Allene
Leona, d.
Nancy Adalaide m.
Peyton Lacy
Cook
Margaret, d.
Leighton, d.
Bennie B. m.
Valera A.
Crawford
Minnie, d.
Edgar S. m.
Melissa E.
Crawford
Melissa H. m.
Robert John
Briggs
Alice, d.
Frederick D.
I Trueman
t Kate
9. Polly Vawter
10. Peachy Vawter
11. Infant, d.
Margaret Berneice
[■ Frederick Clyde
I Melissa lola
i Clinton Culberson
I Bertha
j Burleson Beverly
I Mary
j Leyton Leroy
i. Wm. Peyton
Edgar Allen
Lillian
Thelma
Clifford
r Violo
\ Edgar Crawford
I Addie
C Roberta Beverly
-{ Victoria Mary
I. Infant, d.
■■ V,
■w ■
i
I
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THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 373
RUSSELL VAWTER
Russell Vawter was born June 22, 1755, and lived in Cul-
peper county, Virginia. It is not known who was the father of
Russell, but he was probably a son of a brother of David,
the son of John. David Vawter was born in 1720, and one
of his sons, Jesse, was born in the same year as Russell. It is
reasonably certain that they were closely related, as they both
lived in the same county in Virginia and the same family names
run through both families — such names as Elliott and Beverly.
Jesse Vawter, the son of David, in his account of the journey
westward, speaks of one Joseph Early. One of Russell Vawter's
children is named Joseph Early, probably for this same man.
Russell Vawter was married to Mary Sparks, who was born
September 17, 1757.
Children :
I John Vawter, born April 22, 1778; lived in North Caro-
lina; had two sons, James M. and John Russell. Both moved to
southern Indiana about 1838. James then moved to Tipton
county, in about 1848, and John Russell to Switzerland county.
James died about 1872, and John Russell about 1843.
II Elizabeth Vawter, born April 21, 1780.
III Beverly Vawter, born September 22, 1782; came from
Virginia and settled at Marrow Bone, Cumberland county, Ken-
tucky; sold out about 1836 and went to Macomb, Illinois. Three
of his sons were John, Allan and William. Allan died November
4, 1904.
IV Infant, died.
V Nancy Vawter, born March 19, 1786.
VI Bradford Vawter, born July 26, 1788.
VII Chadwell Vawter, born September 14, 1790.
VIII Joseph Early Vawter, born February 19, 1793.
IX Polly Vawter, born August 20, 1796.
X Peachy Vawter. born August 10, 1798; died 1804.
XI Infant, stillborn.
VII Chadwell Vawter married Susan Taylor; after nearly
374 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
all of his children were born he moved to Stokes, now Forsyth
comity, North Carolina.
Children :
1. George T. Vawter, born September lo, 1817 ; moved with
his parents to North Carolina when about fifteen years old;
moved to Indiana in 1851 ; married Charlotte C. Vogler; died in
1894. Charlotte (Vogler) Vawter died in 1892.
Children :
( i) George W. Vawter, born November, 1840. Is now dead,
but has a family living in Indiana.
(2) John M. Vawter, born January 28, 1844. Is dead, but
has a family living in Indiana.
(3) Samuel M. Vawter, born in North Carolina, October
29, 1847; married Sarah E. McShane. Has been living in Jeffer-
sonville, Indiana, but is at present in Atlanta, Georgia.
Children :
a. S. Frank, born April 2, 1879. Lives in Tipton, Indiana.
b. Fred Mc, born May 19, 1880. Lives in Tipton, Indiana.
c. Charles A., born July 26, 1882.
d. Harold H., born December i, 1884.
e. Isaac, born March 6, 1891 ; died.
/. Homer G., born May 21, 1895.
(4) Rosalie A. Vawter, born December 3, 1849; married
R. A. Gordon. Lives in Indiana.
(5) Emma S., born August 30, 1851 ; married — Ratcliffe.
Lives in Indiana.
2. Pauline Vawter. born in 18 19.
3. Beverly S.. born in 1821 ; moved from North Carolina to
Illinois in 1852; afterward to Kansas.
4. William Vawter, born in 1823; moved from North Caro-
lina to Illinois in 1852 ; died in 1859. Had a son John.
5. Matilda Vawter, born in 1826.
6. Sophronia Vawter, born in 1829.
7. Josiah Vawter, born in 1832 ; died in Confederate army.
VIII Joseph Early Vawter, the son of Russell and Mary
(Sparks) Vawter, was born in Culpeper county, Virginia, in
1793. He went from Virginia, by way of North Carolina, to
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 375
Monroe county, Kentucky, where he settled in about 1823, ;ind
where three of his children are living to-day. Joseph Early Vaw-
ter was a miller, farmer and teacher. He wrote an almanac
(which was never published). He made a bench which he carried
to school for his pupils to sit on and then carried it home each
night for his children to sit on at the table. The bench is still
in the family, and the old house stands to-day just as it was built
by Joseph Early Vawter. He died in 1861.
Joseph Early Vawter was married September 15, 18 12, to
Polly Larimore, who was born February i, 1795, and died No-
vember 8, 1838.
Children :
1. Washington R. Vawter, born July 29, 181 3. Was a physi-
cian.
2. Thomas S. Vawter, born August 17, 181 5.
3. Edith P. Vawter, born November 9, 181 7.
4. Patsy A. Vawter, born March 19, 1820.
5. Joseph M. Vawter. born September 8, 1822.
6. Nancy A. Vawter, born January 2, 1825.
7. James J. Vawter, born January 4, 1827.
8. William D. Vawter, born March 9, 1829.
9. Katy A. Vawter, born March 5, 1831.
10. Amanda J. Vawter, born April 13, 1833.
11. Sallie K. Vawter, born January 11, 1835.
12. Allen V. Vawter, twin, born July 18, 1837.
13. Mary P. Vawter, twin, born July 18, 1837.
Joseph Early Vawter married, second, Nancy Smith, who died
in 1878.
Children :
14. John E. Vawter, born July 18, 1840.
15. Josephus R. Vawter, born January 9, 1842.
16. Beverly P. Vawter, born October 3, 1844.
Thomas S. Vawter, son of Joseph Early and Polly (Lari-
more) Vawter, was born August 17, 1815; married Nancy A.
yjd THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Chapman, who was born February 9, 1820; died December 30,
1873. Thomas S. Vawter died in 1854 near Hillsboro, Ilhnois.
Children :
(i) Martha, who died in 1861.
(2) WilHam M., born in Monroe county, Kentucky, Novem-
ber 27, 1842; married January 10, 1864, to Nancy Jane Burk,
who was born at Walshville, IlHnois, June 12, 1846. W. M.
Vawter had a "bus line and carried mail in Hillsboro, Illinois,
but is now retired.
Children of William and Nancy ( Burk) Vawter :
a. Ida M. Vawter. born December 4, 1864; married August
17, 1886, to Eugene Smith, who was born in Bond county, Illi-
nois, October 9, 1859. They live in Hillsboro, Illinois, and have
one child, Jennievee Eugenia, born February 3, 1888.
h. Emma E. Vawter, born August 22, 1867; married April
26, 1887, to Charles Baxter, who was born at Walshville, Illi-
nois, August II, 1861. They live in Hillsboro, Illinois, where
Mr. Baxter deals in coal and owns the transfer line.
Children :
(a) Clara Ermine, born July 24, 1893; died September 29,
1893.
(b) Mildred May, born August 25, 1896; died November
15. 1896.
(c) Dow Vawter, born January 16, 1898.
c. John William Vawter, born January 22, 1870; married at
Arkansas Pass, Texas, October 7, 1897, to Claudine C. Fowler,
who was born in Smithfield, Missouri, January 17, 1875. They
live in Hillsboro, Illinois, where J. W. Vawter is engaged in the
transfer business. They have one child, Monroe Fowler, who
was born December 18, 1899.
d. Ara Bertie Vawter, born October 17, 1872; died.
e. Maud Illinois Vawter, born April 3, 1873; died.
/. Earl V. Vawter, born September 24. 1879.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 3/7
5
Joseph Monroe Vawter, son of Joseph Early and Polly ( Lari-
more) Vawter, was born September 8, 1822; married Mary
Louise Furgeson, who was born in Virginia in 1844. Joseph M.
Vawter was a farmer, a stock-breeder, a hotel-keeper ; operated
livery stable, 'bus line, canal boats, and was commissioner of
Franklin county, Indiana, for six years. Lived in Brookville;
died in 1903.
Children :
(i) Trueman Carpenter, born in 1875; married Myrta
Bourne in 1897. No children. Trueman C. Vawter is commer-
cial salesman of vehicles, Brookville, Indiana.
(2) George Early, born in 1877. Is a lawyer and manager
of Central Business College of Sedalia, Missouri.
(3) Ray Partee, born in 1879; married Rose Smith in 1902.
They have one child, Clare, \yho was born in 1904. Ray P. Vaw-
ter is a farmer, living near Brookville, Indiana.
(4) Anna Mae, born in 1884. Is a teacher in the public
schools of Brookville, Indiana.
James J. Vawter, son of Joseph Early and Polly (Larimore)
Vawter, was born January 4, 1827; married Susan Hollands-
worth, who was born April 11, 1832, at Marrow Bone, Ken-
tucky. J. J. Vawter is engaged in the mercantile business in
Persimon, Kentucky.
Children :
( I ) Joseph T. Vawter, son of James J. and Susan ( Hollands-
worth) Vawter, was born March 10, 1852; married Bedie Dew-
bre, who was born at Marrow Bone, Kentucky, J. T. Vawter
lives near Persimon, Kentucky, where he is engaged in farming.
Children :
a. William J. Vawter, born October 19, 1873.
h. Dora B. Vawter, born November 18, 1877.
c. Maude Vawter, born May 15, 1880; died August 14, 1889.
^yS THE VAVVTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
d. Evie L. Vawter, born August 25, 1883.
c. Annie Vawter, born April 13, 1887.
(2) Allen V. Vawter, born April 27, 1855; died May 18,
1882.
(3) Mary J. Vawter, born July 3, 1858; married James
Hagan. Their children are Ibba B. and Virgil Vawter.
(4) Amanda S. Vawter, born May 8, 1862; married Joseph
M. Sympson. Their children are Ingram, Electa, who died young,
and Jenievee.
(5) Nancy W. Vawter, born June 16, 1865; died February
8, 1866.
(6) Mintie B. Vawter, born June 4, 1867; married Benja-
min G. Hardin. Their children are Ada S., Dewey S., Eva A.,
Nellie, Ray and Irene.
(7) Julia A. Vawter, born December 23, 1871 ; married
Ansel S. Palmore. Their children are Earl. Mae, Trueman and
Kate.
8
William DeWitt Vawter, son of Joseph Early and Polly (Lari-
more) Vawter, was born in Monroe county, Kentucky, in 1829;
went to Macomb, Illinois, in 185 1, and to Kansas in 1869. Lives
in Burlington, Kansas. Has a son, Frank B. Vawter, a druggist,
living in Randolph, Kansas.
12
Allen Vaul Vawter, son of Joseph Early and Polly (Larimore)
Vawter, was born in Monroe county, Kentucky, July 18, 1837.
He was a twin. He was a farmer, left Kentucky and moved near
Columbia, Missouri, where he was killed May 12, 1888. He was
married to Elizabeth Sinclair, who was born in Providence, Mis-
souri, in 1855 ^^'^ died February 25, 1894.
Children :
( 1 ) Joseph Thomas Vawter, who died at about two years of
age.
(2) Margaret E. Vawter, born September 24, 1880; married
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 379
June 8, 1903, to W. A. Reynolds, who was born February lo,
1877. They Hve in Eldon, Miller county, Missouri, where Mr.
Reynolds is in the grocery business.
(3) Walter Allen Vawter, born December 24. 1882, near
Columbia, Missouri. Lives in Lamar. Barton county, Missouri.
(4) Josephine Allen, born September 30, 1884; near Colum-
bia, Missouri; married April 7, 1903, to O. L. Settle, who was
born October 31, 1884. They live in Lamar, Missouri, where
O. L. Settle has a meat market.
Children :
a. Margaret Berneice Settle, born February 18, 1905.
(5) Allene Vawter, born January 30, 1889; near Columbia,
Missouri. Lives in Lamar, Missouri.
15
Josephus R. Vawter, son of Joseph Early and Nancy (Smith)
Vawter, was born in Monroe county, Kentucky, January 9, 1842;
married May 26. 1867, to Mary J. Williams, who was born April
4, 1849, in Monroe county, Kentucky. Josephus R. Vawter was
a farmer and lived in Monroe county, Kentucky. He died May 3,
1882.
Children :
(i) Leona Vawter, born March 23, 1868; died May i, 1897.
(2) Nancy Adalaide Vawter, was born April 5, 1869, in
Monroe county, Kentucky; married January 19, 1888, to Peyton
Lacy Cook, a farmer, who was born in Alabama, April 12, 1861.
They live in Cordell, Oklahoma Territory.
Children :
a. Frederick Clyde Cook, born December 22, 1888; died De-
cember 27, 1889.
b. Melissa lola Cook, born January 28, 1891.
c. Clinton Culberson Cook, born January 29, 1893.
d. Bertha Cook, born February 13, 1895.
e. Burleson Beverly Cook, born April 29, 1896.
/. Mary Cook, born January 6, 1900.
380 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
X
g. Ley ton Leroy Cook, born March 5, 1902.
h. William Peyton Cook, born September 11, 1904.
(3) Margaret Vawter, born October 12, 1870; died No-
vember, 1870.
(4) Leighton Vawter, born July 21, 1872; died July. 1873.
(5) Bennie B. Vawter, born in Monroe county, Kentucky,
August 21, 1874; married December 25, 1895, to Valera A.
Crawford, who was born in Tennessee, June 3, 1878. B. B. Vaw-
ter has been a rural mail carrier, but is at present employed as a
salesman in a dry-goods store. He lives in Cordell, Oklahoma
Territory.
Children :
a. Edgar Allen Vawter, born March 19, 1898.
b. Lillian, born June 16, 1900.
c. Thelma, born March 22, 1902; died June 27, 1903.
d. Clifford, born January 22, 1904.
(6) Minnie Vawter was born August 21, 1874; died Novem-
ber 12, 1875. Bennie B. and Minnie Vawter were twins.
(7) Edgar S. Vawter was born in Monroe county, Kentucky,
December 22, 1876; married October 15, 1899, to Melissa E.
Crawford, who was born February 6, 1882, in Johnson county,
Texas. Edgar S. Vawter is a farmer, living near Rocky, Okla-
homa Territory.
Children :
a. Violo Vawter, born November 24, 1900.
b. Edgar Crawford Vawter. born August 10, 1902.
c. Addie Vawter, born August 27, 1904.
(8) Melissa H. Vawter was born in Monroe county, Ken-
tucky, January 4, 1879; married September 25, 1898, in Tarrant
county, Texas, to Robert John Briggs, who was born in Canada,
March 14, 1871. They live in Dalhart, Texas, where Mr. Briggs
is a painter and paper-hanger.
Children :
Roberta Beverly Briggs, born June 11, 1899 in Tarrant county,
Texas.
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 38 1
Victoria Mary Briggs, born September 23. 1901, in Tarrant
county, Texas.
(9) Infant, born and died February, 1880.
16
Beverly P. Vawter, son of Joseph Early and Nancy (Smith)
Vawter, was born October 3, 1844; married to Maria L. Graves
at Scottsville, Illinois, November 17, 1867; lives at Modesto,
Illinois.
Maria (Graves) Vawter died March 10, 1904.
Children :
a. Alice, born in 1878; died in infancy.
b. Frederick D., born in 1880. Is a physician at Gessie, In-
diana.
EDWARD VAWTER
Edward Vawter, the son of John, Bartholomew or Angus Vaw-
ter (it is not certain which), settled in Essex county, Virginia,
where his two sons, Edward and William, were born. There was
also a son Thomas.
Edward Vawter, the first, built a church in Essex county, in
1 73 1, which is still standing and in use. It is called "Vauter's
Church." An account of it taken from "Old Churches, Ministers
and Families of Virginia," by W. Meade, is as follows :
"Upon a branch of Blackburn's Creek called Church Swamp
stands Vauter's Church, built, as indicated by a date inscribed
upon its walls, in 1731. This church is in a good state of preser-
vation. Mrs. Lewis, who is descended from the Pendletons and
Gaines of Culpeper, the Vauters of Essex and the Ruckers, says :
There were two churches, the brick and the South Church, which
was about sixteen miles distant and four miles below the present
site of the Madison court-house. It was a frame building and
stood on the land of Richard Vauter. Both buildings were old at
the commencement of the Revolutionary War. The Episcopal
families around these churches were the Ruckers, the Barbours,
Beales, Keastleys, Lewis and Vauters.' "
William, son of Edward the first, was born May 6, 1735. He
was married to Anne Ballard. He and his brother Edward both
served in the Revolutionary War. He was a large landowner in
Greenbrier county, Virginia. He died March 6, 181 5. Anne
(Ballard) Vawter, his wife, was born October 23, 1733; died
May 24, 1814.
William Vawter,* son of William and Anne (Ballard) Vaw-
ter, was born May 26, 1765. He was in the Revolutionary War
and in the battle of Yorktown. He secured the appointment of
government surveyor from the governor of Virginia ; moved to
West Virginia in 1791, and married February 12, 1795, Margaret,
the daughter of John and Anne (Givens) Henderson, of Point
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 383
Pleasant, West Virginia. They located on Hans Creek, Monroe
county, West Virginia. William Vawter died November 15,
1822. Margaret, his wife, was born February 12, 1771, and died
September 8, 1853.
Children of William and Margaret (Henderson) Vawter:
1. Elizabeth,'^ born January 28, 1798; married Robert Young,
of Monroe county.
2. John Henderson,^ born January 23, 1800; died June 8,
1877-
3. Anne,^ born March 18, 1802 ; married Lorenzo Dow Cook;
rjoved to Indiana.
4. Jean or Jennie,^ born June 14, 1805; married Andrew
Shanklin ; moved to Indiana.
5. Mary or Polly,^ born September 8, 1808; married Moses
Kerr; moved to Indiana; died November 23, 1887.
6. Elliott,^ born March 9, 1812; married Julia Pack,
2. John Henderson Vawter, son of William and Margaret
(Henderson) Vawter, was born in Monroe county. West Vir-
ginia, January 23, 1800. He inherited his father's estate and
continued to reside there until his death. He was a successful
planter and a civil engineer of considerable ability, locating nearly
all of the Middle Tennessee Railroad. He was for a long time
surveyor of Monroe county, and before the war he represented
that county in the Virginia Assembly for nearly twenty years.
From the summer of 1862 till the close of the war, he was a cap-
tain on the staff of General John Echols, C. S. A. He had four
sons in the Confederate army. They were Dr. Louis A., captain
of Company C, Sharpshooters, Thirtieth Virginia. William en-
tered Company D, Twenty-seventh Regiment, Stonewall Brigade,
in August, 1862; wounded at the battle of the Wilderness, and
promoted to commissary department, with rank of captain.
James E., entered Twelfth Mississippi Regiment in 1861, elected
captain of Company I in May, 1862; shot five times at Frazier's
Farm and died July 2, 1862. Charles E., entered Monroe Guards
in May, 1861, then into the Twenty-seventh Regiment, Stonewall
Brigade; appointed captain of a company of sharpshooters in
384 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
1862 ; captured and imprisoned in Fort Delaware in March, 1865 ;
released in June, 1865.
John Henderson Vawter married, first, Adaline Dunlap, Jan-
uary 22, 1828; she died November 8, 1828, at the birth of her
first child, who also died a year later. June 17, 1833, he married,
second, Clara S. Peck, of Giles county.
Children of John Henderson and Clara (Peck) Vawter:
( 1 ) John William,® born September 30, 1834; married Eliza-
beth Dew Kean.
(2) Elizabeth Mary,'' born January 2, 1836.
(3) Margaret Anne,*^ born July i, 1837, died single, 1885.
(4) Louis Addison,^ born October 22, 1838; died January 5,
1900.
(5) James Elliott," born March i, 1840; died single, 1862.
(6) Charles E.,** born June 9, 1841.
(7) Allen Henderson, "^ born January 8, 1843; died single.
(8) Matilda Ellen,*' born March 16, 1844; married William
Farnier.
(9) Sarah Josephine,*' born July 10, 1847; married Frank
Peck Sweeny ; died.
(10) Joseph Snyder," born July 17, 1849; died single, 1863.
(11) Clara Virginia," born August 23, 1851 ; married Lewis
Peck ; died.
(12) Henry Alexander," born xA.pril 23, 1853 ; married Nettie
Baber.
(13) George W.," born April 5, 1855; married Eliza L.
Gwinn.
(4) Louis Addison Vawter received his primary education
under a tutor, later attending the Union Academy, and then en-
tering the Emory and Henry College in Washington county,
West Virginia, graduating at the latter institution in 1854, after
which he studied medicine. At the opening of the Civil War, he
entered the Confederate service as captain of volunteer infantry.
Thirtieth Battalion; was taken a prisoner at the battle of Win-
chester, September 19, 1864, and held at Fort Delaware until in
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 385
July, 1865, when he was set at hberty. Returning to his father's
home in West Virginia, he had charge of the plantation there
for a time. During the winter of 1867-68, he took a course of
lectures at Cincinnati in the Ohio Medical College, and in the
latter year began the practice of his profession at Ballardsville,
West Virginia. He moved to Indiana and practiced medicine with
R. E. Barnett in Hancock county, Indiana, until 1882. He then
received an appointment as physician to the Round Valley Indian
Agency in California. He resigned his position there in 1884 and
went to Radersburg. Montana, where he remained until 1893.
After that he practiced his profession in Boulder, Montana. He
was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and was identified
with the Democratic party. Louis A. Vawter married, first, Mary
Adair, of Red Sulphur Springs. She died and he was married
January 16, 1867. to Emma M. Damson, who was born in Alle-
ghany county, Virginia, December 14, 1838.
Children of Louis and Emma (Damson) Vawter:
o. Mary Allen Vaw-ter, born in Virginia, November 14, 1868;
died in Greenfield, Indiana, January 20, 1895.
b. John William Vawter, born in Virginia, April 13, 1871.
Is an illustrator of ability. Is very well known through his illus-
trations of James Whitcomb Riley's books.
c. Clara Peck Vawter, born in Virginia, September 25, 1873.
Had published one book, the Rabbit's Ransom, and some other
short stories and poems. Was a fine judge of literature and
seemed to have a brilliant future opening before her, when she
died in Indianapolis, Indiana, October 12, 1900.
d. Charles Elliott Vawter, born in Greenfield, Indiana, June
4, 1882.
(6) Charles Erastus Vawter, son of John Henderson and
Clara (Peck) Vawter, at the close of the war returned to Emory
and Henry from which he was graduated in 1866. He then
taught in Chattanooga till 1868, when he entered the University
of Virginia for a special course in mathematics. In the same year
he w^as elected professor of mathematics at his alma mater, where
he taught until he was made president of the famous Miller
386 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA
Manual Training School in Albemarle county, in 1878. He mar-
ried, July 24, 1866, Virginia Longley, of Tennessee.
Children of Charles E. and Virginia (Longley) Vawter:
a. Mary Longley, who married Harrison Robertson of Dan-
ville.
h. Josephine, who married Stonewall Tompkins, a member of
the Miller School faculty.
c. Charles E., Jr.. a graduate of the University of Virginia
and professor of mathematics and physics at the Virginia Poly- 1
technic Institute.
d. Lenora Leigh.
e. James Elliot.
/. Virginia Longley.
g. Edmund Longley.
For the above account of the descendents of Edward Vawter
credit is here given in part to a book on the "Ancestry and De-
scendants of Lieutenant John Henderson," by Joseph Lyon Mil-
ler, Ashland. Kentucky, and to the ''History of Montana," by
Joaquin Miller.
Thomas Vawter, son of Edward, the first, was born in 1750.
He had a son, Edward, born in 1775. This son Edward had a
daughter Elizabeth, who married her cousin Thomas Vawter.
Thomas and Elizabeth Vawter were the ancestors of Mrs. Egbert
Jones, Holly Springs, Mississippi.
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MADISON AND VICINITY A HUNDRED YEARS AGO
It might perhaps be interesting to know something of Madi-
son, the conditions of the surrounding country- and the cus-
toms at the time the Vawters first came to Indiana. The history
of all the Vawters descended from Jesse and many of those de-
scended from Philemon has, in the past, if not now, been
intimately connected with the history of Madison itself. In a
Madison paper there appeared many years ago a series of inter-
views with the early pioneers of Jefferson county. One of these
is with James Burns, the father of Maxa Burns, who married
]\Iaria \^awter. This article is here given as it was written :
JAMES BURNS
"James Burns, one of the oldest and most intelligent of our
early settlers, is living on Second street, in the extreme western
part of Madison. He is the father of ex-Mayor Miles S. Burns.
Mr. Burns was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, near Alexan-
dria, in 1/86. He moved to Kentucky, traveling in a wagon, in
the year 1794. Mason and Bracken counties were his stopping
places until 1806, when, accompanied by a young wife he had
lately married, he removed again into Ohio. In December, 1806,
Burns entered Fort Washington for the first time. The fort and
surrounding village had not yet received its present name — Cin-
cinnati. The tract of land back from the river was called Hob-
son's Choice, the rest, facing the river. Fort Washington. The
houses were few and scattered here and there in the woods and
clearings. Mr. Burns rented a farm and lived upon it. He was
enrolled in the militia and saw extensive service against the Ohio
Indians. When Aaron Burr came west and fled southward for
New Orleans. Burns was among the militia who kept guard along
the river at Cincinnati to intercept and capture him. The wily
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Burr, however, evaded the authorities and passed south without
detection. Burns came to Madison in 1814, the Indians being
then at war with the settlers. James Hartsock, John Burns and
James Burns together purchased a boat at Cincinnati in which
to bring themselves, their families and household possessions to
Madison. The boat w^as about one hundred feet long and roofed
over. Three days were occupied in floating down to Madison.
*We landed,' says Mr. Burns, 'opposite the big frame house
that old John Mclntire put up. It is the same house that John
Marsh now lives in, though it has been remodeled several times.
Main street at that time — 18 14 — was the only street in the town.
Main Cross was laid out only a little way down toward Mul-
berry. A person had to drive around logs and trees to go any-
where. The timber was cut down to make a show but was not
cut up or hauled away. There were eight or ten families in the
town, not more. The bottom was almost entirely covered with
woods, only a little spot cleared for houses. Burnett's public
house stood on Main Cross, close to where the old Indiana Bank
is now. On Main street, was John Booth's tavern, a hewed log
house on the east side of Main, below our court-house. A man
named Wilson had a cabinet shop near the tavern. Colonel Paul
lived in a brick house near the river bank, the only brick house in
the town then. Three or four lawyers were boarding with him,
William Hendricks, Cristopher Harrison, the government sur-
veyor, and others. Soon after I came, Harrison was elected to
congress. This was before he was married. Basil Bentley, the
first sheriff of this county, also boarded with Colonel Paul. I
took dinner shortly after I came to town with Colonel Paul and
saw them all. Old Wagner, Ike Wagner's father, had a black-
smith shop between Main and Mulberry, on High street. John
Mclntire kept a dry-goods store in his big frame house. Colonel
Paul had a mill back and above the present burying ground on
Crooked Creek. The mill was up and had just got to grinding
corn when I came. It was run by water power. Dawson Black-
more lived on the corner of Walnut and High, in a one-story
hewed log house. He had three sons and two daughters. Dawson
Blackmore, Jr., was the first white male child born in Madison.
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Betty Strickland, a daughter of Judge Strickland, who lived be-
yond Blackmore's on Walnut street, was the first girl baby born
about here. The Vawters w^ere here and a few others besides,
when our party landed.
" 'As we went up town from the boat we found everybody
sitting around watching for Indians, afraid to go out of the
house almost. A man named Jim Moore invited us to his house
to stay a few days, and we went. After taking our families to
Moore's, Hartsock and myself took our guns and went to Wirt,
then a fort or blockhouse. We passed the blockhouse at old
James Edwards' mill on Clifty Creek. When we got out to the
other blockhouse on Harbert's Creek the people ran out and closed
the gate, thinking we were Indians. They made us stand off and
hello a good deal before they let us in. After the gate was opened
they stood staring and gaping to see whether we were all right
or not. I examined the land I had bought that day and the next
morning we got horses and returned to Madison. I then hired
a team and hauled out two or three loads of furniture and things.
Next we sold the boat to John and Jim Cowden. Our three fam-
ilies moved out to Harbert's blockhouse together. The first night
we camped by a big log on old Jesse Vawter's place. We slept
on the ground before a log fire near the blockhouse.
" 'We located on Harbert's Creek, on the site of the village of
Wirt, six miles from Madison. Five families were living in the
blockhouse at this time; our party adding three more. William
Harbert, the first settler, after whom the creek took its name, who
went out and built a cabin in 1811, before the war began, was
there with his family. Daniel Hickman, John Brock, Samuel
Chasteen, William West and their families were the others. We
all lived in the blockhouse and were in continual fear of the In-
dians. Every night we kept guard, and Judge Dunn passed once
or twice every week with his rangers. The Indians came in sight
frequently, threatening us. Several persons that had wandered
off in the woods hunting disappeared and were never afterwards
heard of, no doubt having been murdered or carried away by the
Indians. The blockhouse stood about fifteen rods east of my late
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residence at Wirt. The site of the fort is now a part of the farm
of Hiram Francisco.
" 'The blockhouse was a square inclosing about one-half an
acre. In each of the four corners were log houses built unusually
strong. The upper part hung over on the outside to prevent the
Indians climbing up on the roof, and all the sides Vvcre pierced
with port-holes. There were other houses close up to the picket
walls, v/hich served to strengthen the pickets. The picket was a
fence of high, heavy posts driven into the ground and sharpened
on the ends. There was a gate on the north side of the fort, and
one on the east. Inside the fort was a hollow square, all the
houses being close up to the walls. The families that lived there
had built cabins on their land when they first made the settlement,
all of them from a half-mile to three or four miles distant from
Harbert's. When the Indians came they were afraid to be sep-
arated so far from each other, so the blockhouse was built. The
location was a first rate one. It was on the high bank just south
of "the creek. The land on the east and west sides sloped down a
little lower than where the fort was. A fine large spring was near
the fort, too.
" 'In those days we all dressed in buckskin breeches and hunt-
ing shirts. We never went out without our guns ready for an en-
counter with the Indians or wild animals. The woods were so
full of game that the rangers shot all they had to eat. If they
didn't shoot the game they had to go without. This country be-
longed to old Captain White-Eyes and his brood. White-Eyes
pretended to be a big chief and friendly to the whites, but there
was no dependence in him. He was a bold-looking jockey, rather
sassy, about thirty years old and not short of six feet in height.
He wore the Indian garb — breech clout, leggins and moccasins,
with a blanket thrown over his shoulders. His leggins were of
dark blue or black woolen cloth, pretty fine, too. Indians were par-
ticular about cloth, they knew what was good and wouldn't buy it
if it wasn't. His hair was long and black and had buzzard's quills
stuck around in it. He always carried a gun and a tomahawk.
His tomahawk was made with a pipe in the pole. He was the big-
srest Indian in his tribe, the Pottawattomies. The tribe came from
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out on the Wabash. There were well onto a hundred with White-
Eyes.
" These Indians had a camp on Marble Creek, close to Hillis'
blockhouse. It was in Lancaster township on Stout's farm. The
camp was on a little knoll. All about it the bark was pulled off
the trees and set on end for shelter. Trees were peeled as high
as they could reach and for a good bit around, as they had about
fifteen wigwams. Indians wouldn't go into a house and sit down
in a chair to eat from a table — they'd get down on their knees
around the table and take things off the plates with their hands.
They mostly ate meat. I've seen Indians eating meat off one end
of a chunk and a dog biting and chewing at the other. They
thought as much of their dogs as they did of themselves. In the
logs and stumps about the camp you'd see little holes hollowed
out where they put their corn and pounded it with their toma-
hawks. They had a good many ponies which they used in pack-
ing their things from place to place. Every man carried his rifle
and hunting gear. Old White-Eyes rode generally. The squaws
wrapped a lot of stuff, sometimes a bushel or two of corn, in a
blanket and swung it on their backs, having the ends tied and
pressing against their foreheads. The Indians were accustomed
to come here to trade and never got away without being pretty
well melted with liquor. They always had a jug.
" 'The Indians were good marksmen. They shot with rifle and
bow and arrow. One time, when thirty or forty of White-Eyes'
men were passing through my place I coaxed one of them into
my stable to see a bay mare the Indians had stolen once. The
mare hated the sight of an Indian. She'd begin to plunge and
kick the moment she saw one. Before he got fairly in the stable
the mare squealed and kicked at him. The Indian broke and ran,
saying, "She's no good horse, no good horse."
" 'Madison was owned originally by Paul, Burnet, Davis and
Lyon. Burnet lived in Cincinnati, Davis some place in Ohio, and
Lyon at Eagle Hollow. Davis and Burnet came in after the first
sale of lots by Paul and Lyon in i8i i. Jefferson county extended
to the Indian country and was called Jackson's purchase. The first
steamboat that passed this point was the Robert Fulton. I think
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she passed here in 1815 or 1816. The first boat I was ever on was
the Hibernia. I went to Cincinnati on her from this place in
181 7 or 1 81 8. The boat was not running regularly between any
points.
" 'Wirt was laid out by Colonel Arion. James Vawter and my-
self. I proposed Wyandotte as the name of the place. Colonel
Arion suggested Wirt, after William Wirt, of Virginia, and so
it got that name. The Baptists (Iron Jackets) organized a church
at Wirt in February, 181 8. The meeting was held in the log
school-house. The members were William West and wife, Wil-
liam Harbert and wife, John Burns and wife, James Burns and
wife, Robert Harbert, a single man, a young woman named Re-
becca Marshall, John Stevens, Wilson Moncrief, Abner Mon-
crief, James Harbert, Thomas Glover and Rachel Johnson.
Daniel Stogsdill, the preacher, was from Pulaski county, Ken-
tucky. Church was held in the school-house for nine years. Then
a little brick house was built. The present church is almost ex-
actly on the same site as the first one, just a small distance east of
the old one. The first baptism recorded by the church was in
June, 1825. The first school-house was built pretty near the pres-
ent church. It was started in 1819. The teacher was a Scotch-
man named Carmichael, who boarded at my house. The first
miill-dam ever built on Big Creek was made by James Hayes. It
was in Lancaster township, and is now the property of John B.
Craft. It was formerly owned by Horace Byfield. The dam is
there yet. I had my wheat and corn ground there for three or
four years.' "
Among the early settlers of Madison, Indiana, were Robert
Cotton, one of the first officers of Jefferson county, Howard
Watts, a leading doctor, Shadrick Wilber, a merchant, John H.
Wagner, a blacksmith, William Watlington, a farmer and Phile-
mon Vawter, who came to Madison in 1808.
JOHN H. WAGONER
"John H. Wagner and family, consisting of three sons, Samuel,
Lewis and George, and four daughters, Jane, Betsy, Katy and
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Phoebe, disembarked from a flatboat on the first day of May,
1808, at a point on the Ohio river where the town of Madison
was afterwards located. At this date not a cabin of any kind was
built in the bottoms at this place, excepting- one which was built
and occupied by a man by the name of Booth. This was in the
upper portion of the bottom, where Isom Ross afterward located
and operated his tan-yard.
"J- H. Wagner came from Pennsylvania, and was of the old
German stock of that state. He was a blacksmith by trade and
brought a portion of his tools with him. After transferring his
tools and what few household effects there were to the second
bottom, the camp was located at a point on the bluff near where
John T. Schofield's residence now stands — the northwest corner
of Jefferson and High streets.
"The smoke from the camp-fire attracted the attention of
Jesse Vawter, who had landed at this place some two years be-
fore, but had located on top of the hill near where the Michigan
roads now runs. When Mr. Vawter saw the smoke curling up
through the tree tops from the camp in the bottom below he at
once set out to visit the camp and learn who the new settlers
were. In those days neighbors were so few and far between that
it was a genuine pleasure to look into the face of a stranger, if
a white man, whether he was traveling through the country or
seeking a home. Mr. Vawter gave Mr. Wagner and his family
a hearty welcome, and when he saw the blacksmith tools he was
rejoiced to know that they were to have a blacksmith among them,
for in those days the settlers were in greater need of the handi-
work of this trade than that of any other one occupation. After
assisting in raising their tent and in making things as comfortable
as was possible under the surrounding conditions, Mr. Vawter
departed for his home on the hill top. but not before giving Mr.
Wagner to understand that he would be glad to assist him in any
way he could in starting his new home.
"In a short time Mr. Wagner had a log house built on the site
of his camp and a blacksmith shop nearby. After a time his
house served as a tavern or stopping place for the travelers to
and from Kentucky and the settlements back from the river.
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These two buildings were the first erected in what was after
wards the old town of Madison."
WILLIAM WATLINGTON
"In the early part of the year 1814 William Watlington, of
Bridgetown, New Jersey, landed at a point on the Ohio River
where Madison now is. At that time it was an almost unbroken
forest, as only two or three log houses were to be found in the
bottom, the early settlers having located on the hill-tops and high
rolling lands back from the river.
"William Watlington entered one hundred and sixty acres
from the government, five miles north of the river on an Indian
trail leading from the river to Graham Creek. The Graham
Road was afterwards located along this trail. During the sum-
mer Mr. Watlington built two log cabins on his claim. One of
the cabins he fitted up for himself, the other being built for John
Bramwell and his family, whom he had employed to care for his
cows and other property while he should be away. In the fall of
the same year he returned to New Jersey, and the following
spring, 181 5, with his wife he again returned to Indiana. Dur-
ing the summer of 181 5 he made a trip by flatboat to New Or-
leans. He returned, chiefly on foot, and contracted a fever, dying
shortly after reaching his home in Indiana, on October 15, 181 5."
JOHN SMOCK
"John Smock, in talking of the early times, said : Tor a few
years after coming to Indiana the early settlers had to go to
Kentucky for provisions or to Work's mill in Clark county, near
Charlestown. It was not long until Mr. Edwards built a mill on
Clifty Creek, just above where the road now crosses the creek.
" 'The first fruit trees were brought to the neighborhood of
Madison by Samuel Smock and Peter Veneleane. The first
mill was a hand-mill. The neighbors would come there with their
corn and would take turns in grinding it. The sheep were penned
every night to keep them from the wolves. To exterminate the
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wolves the settlers built pens to trap them. The pens were built
of logs, generally split logs. The top was so heavy a wolf could
not raise it. It was constructed with a trigger to which a piece
of meat was fastened. The trigger was attached to a pole which
held the lid or top of the pen up. When the wolf got into the
pen and pulled the meat the trap fell and Mr. Wolf was caught
and killed, and $2 received for his scalp, which was the legal
price for both ears.
" 'The people were more social then than they are now. The
men frequently went ten or twelve miles to help one another raise
cabins. The young women would go to visit at each other's
houses in numbers. It made no difference if it happened to be
wash-day. They all helped, and merriment and work went on
together.
" 'The grass, generally called broom sage, is a native of North
Carolina. It was brought to Madison by a family by the name
of White. They thought that they were going to a new country
— a wilderness where they could get nothing to sweep with, so
the woman tied a few bunches carefully together and brought
them along. That carried the seed here. The farmers know to
their sorrow how it will spread.' "
ANDREW DINWIDDIE
"Andrew Dinwiddle said that his father came to Jefferson
county first in 1807, but, because the Indians proved so trouble-
some, he returned to Kentucky at the end of a year. He came
back to Hanover township in 1809. He said : 'Father settled one
mile northwest of Hanover. The settlers in the vicinity met one
day and built a fort on his place for protection against the Indi-
ans. Below this fort an old weaver by the name of West had
put up a small cabin. He provided a way of escape from the
Indians, in case they attacked him suddenly at night or surprised
him during the day and got between his cabin and the fort. Un-
derneath his puncheon floor he dug a hole and excavated the
earth for some distance making a tunnel through which he could
crawl to a bushy place in the woods near by. Coming out of
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this tunnel unobserved by his enemies, an escape to the fort would
not have been difficult.
" 'After the Pigeon Roost massacre we had no further trouble
with hostile Indians. The friendly ones, however, were continu-
ally prowling around doing all the mischief in their power. The
Indians frequently cut across our land when out hunting. One
day a party of eight or ten came along, and all were drunk but
one. Old White-Eyes was with them. They had not gone far
before I heard a crash, and looking around I saw that one Indian
had fallen off his horse and was sprawling on the ground with
his five or six guns scattered about him. The sober one of the
party spent some time trying to get him mounted, but before his
task was accomplished quite a crowd of spectators had assembled
who enjoyed the fun very much.
" 'Shortly after this old White-Eyes entered a house and found
a woman making soap. By threatening her, he compelled her to
drink a half-pint of strong lye and then left. Her husband re-
turned in a few moments and gave her an emetic which relieved
her sufferings. Then the husband gathered together two or
three men and went in search of the Indian intending to kill him,
but failed to find him. Shortly afterwards, White-Eyes turned
up in Scott county, to the terror of all the inhabitants. Old Doc-
tor Hicks, thinking to rid them of him. gave him poison in
whisky, but gave him too much, and, instead of having the de-
sired effect, it acted as an emetic. White-Eyes did not appreciate
such hospitality and left for parts unknown.' "
THOMAS ROSEBERRY
"Thomas Roseberry, of Graham township, said : 'When my
father built a double-hewed log house in 1812 it was necessary
to go as far as the Ohio River to obtain help to raise it. The set-
tlers were three days getting it up and drank fifteen gallons of
whisky while at it. Without the whisky they could not have
raised it at all. The old house is standing yet (about 1850), with
all the port-holes through which watch was kept, oftentimes night
and day. My brothers Thomas, John and George would stand
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sentry alternately. George was the youngest and would say :
"Oh, I'm so tired. I don't think any 'Injuns' will come to-night."
When the Pigeon Roost massacre occurred the settlers were ter-
ror-stricken and vv'ent to the blockhouse on the farm of Georee
Campbell. During these alarming times the farmers guarded the
women with guns in hand while the cows were being milked.
Guns were also carried on plows while plowing the ground. Old
White-Eyes visited our folks sometimes, after the massacre, and
pretended to be friendly. He always had an aversion to white
babies, and he said that all those whose heads were not shaped
to suit him ought to be tomahawked.' "
HIRAM PRATHER
"Colonel Hiram Prather, of Jennings county, in speaking of
the Indians, said : 'The Indians were encamped on the south
fork of the Muscukutuck Creek ; their camps extending several
miles up the creek. They were under the direct control of Cap-
tains White-Eyes and Big-John. Bill Kilbuck seemed to be their
chief. He was half white, could read and write, and was the son
of old Kilbuck, who was killed by Captain Collins near the
Pigeon Roost Settlement the evening before the massacre. These
Indians were Delawares and Potawattomies. In the spring of
1 817 they left their camp and by hundreds passed our cabin going
west. They used to trade with our folks, selling baskets, dressed
skins, bead work, etc' "
JAMES E. LEWIS
"James E. Lewis said : 'The old market-house in Madison was
built by setting four posts with a fork in the upper end and poles
laid in them. It was then covered with clapboards, with logs to
hold them on. The house used as a court-house stood where V.
Firth's house now stands. The court was held in the upper room.
The stairs w^as on the outside. The jail was hard to beat. It was
a house with a house built on the outside so close that nothing
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could be moved, as the outside held everything in its place. David
Kent was jailor.
" 'It was hard to make change in these times, as money was
scarce. The old Spanish dollar was universally used. Half-dol-
lars and twenty-five-cent pieces, bits and tips (twelve and one-
half and six and one-quarter cents). Ten-cent pieces passed for
twelve and one-half or eight for a dollar. In 1831 or 1832, when
Mr. Jesse Whitehead opened store, he used to bring out a keg
full of ten and five cent pieces and make change for any one want-
ing it. He gave eight dimes and sixteen five cent pieces for a
dollar. The pieces were soon called Jesse and half Jesse. Before
this time they used to cut the money to make change. This cut
money was called sharpshins.
" Tt is not to be wondered at if many of our citizens have little
learning. In the early days many had to go to school two and
three miles, and all the way through the woods, with blazes on
the trees to prevent them from getting lost. Such school-houses
as we had ! One log was left out to light the house, and this in
cold weather, too, for we had to work in the summer.
" 'Whenever there was a night meeting it was held at early
candle lighting. At the appointed time the heads of each family
would take one or two candles in their hands ; some would bring
lanterns. If many came the house would be well lighted, and if
few came they would have poor lights.
" 'About this time John Brown and C. B. Lewis went down to
the mouth of Crooked Creek to fish. A strange-looking craft
soon rounded the point. They immediately concluded it was the
Indians, and they dropped everything and ran through the woods
and into the town and reported the Indians coming. The citizens
went armed to the river and saw the first steamboat that came and
landed at Madison,
" 'The country around Madison was settled before the town it-
self. The name of Madison was at first Wakefield. Jefferson
county and Scott county were formed from Clark county, and
were one for some time. Jefferson county was named for Jeffer-
son, then President, and Madison was named for President Madi-
son in 1809 or 1810.
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" 'The town of Madison was bought at the sale at Jefferson-
ville, where the land-office was located, in 1809, by John Paul,
Jonathan Lyon and Lewis Davis, at $6.16 per acre. These were
the original proprietors who laid out the town and made the first
sale of lots in February, 181 o. Colonel John Vawter was present.
" 'The first newspaper published in Madison was the Western
Eagle, published by Seth M. Leavenworth and Wm. Hendricks.
Colonel John Vawter told me that this paper was published in his
kitchen.
" 'In 1825 or 1826 David McClure, Sr., lived in what was then
called Dorsey's tavern, just west of the First National Bank. He
had just gotten two or more cords of wood about five feet long.
This was the length in those days, and when cut in two was the
proper length for the fire-place. On Christmas eve the stars were
bright at ten o'clock, when Samuel David, Jr., Marsh McClure,
Jim Collins and Napoleon Collins (afterwards captain in the
United States Navy) and Dick Canby (afterwards General
Canby) took this wood and built a fence across Main Cross street.
The next morning the snow was about a foot deep, and David
McClure and his two brothers had to take down the fence and
pile up the wood for a Christmas morning frolic. I don't believe
David, Sr., has ever forgiven me to this day for that morning's
work.' "
"At the time when our forefathers first settled in Madison the
navigation of the river was of the simplest kind. There were no
steamboats then. Broadhorns could float down, but to go up
stream the keel-boat was used — a craft something similar to the
present canal-boat, but very rude; the guards were about a foot
wide and had cleets nailed on the floor. Two or three men on
each side with long poles would push it against the current with
their shoulders. When the water was deep or rapid the men
looked as though they were all lying down. Six miles was con-
sidered a good day's run.
"After selecting a site, the first thing for the early settler to do
was to erect a log cabin in which to live. The cabin of that day
was built as follows: The logs were small and as nearly of a
size as possible. Clapboards filled the spaces between the logs
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and were held in place by wooden pins driven in auger holes in the
logs. The floors were of heavy puncheons ; the roof of clapboards
secured by poles laid across them ; the hinges and catches of the
door were of wood. In many of them not a nail was used. The
bedsteads were made by inserting poles in auger holes in the
walls at the proper distance for length and breadth, the other
ends of the poles being secured to a corner post. Upon this frame
was placed a layer of poles covered with deer skins, and over this
a tick filled with leaves." Perhaps many of the women brought
with them, as did Elizabeth Vawter, their own feather beds from
Virginia or Kentucky.
"After the erection of the cabin, the forest trees had to be re-
moved to make room for a patch of corn and potatoes. All the
neighbors helped each other in building, clearing and log rolling.
One of the old settlers said that he once hired a man for three
months and only had his labor four weeks. Two-thirds of the
time he was working on the neighbors' farms.
"The main dependence for clothing," said an early settler of
Jennings county, "was a flax lint manufactured into cloth and
worn by both men and women. Boots and shoes were costly ar-
ticles and only enjoyed to any extent by the most favored set-
tlers. Moccasins were the most popular covering for the foot.
They were made principally from the deer skin tanned in a
wooden trough. The skins of the deer were also used for pants.
Hats were made from wool and fur and worn for many years.
"Wild game was abundant, especially wild turkeys. One man
caught twelve in traps during a single night. He said : 'We
used the deer, bear and turkey for meat. We had more meat than
bread, corn-bread and Johnny-cake being all we got generally.
We kept a little white flour for company, and were always glad
when any came, because then we had biscuits. Venison was not
considered such a luxury then. A fine fat buck brought only
$1.50. Corn was made into meal by pounding it.'
"Vension hams dried, bear bacon and coon skins, with other
peltries, were the trading stock of the times and legal tender for
ordinary debts and marriage licenses. Our trading was done at
Madison. We carried our flour on pack horses, making the trip
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from Vernon to Madison and back in three days, staying one
night at Grandfather Vawter's and the other at John Badger's
on Cap Creek. The first barrel of salt was hauled on a one-horse
sled and sold to Samuel Campbell, Joseph Pool and Mr. Prather
for $22 in silver.
"We sold corn for twelve and a half cents a bushel, oats for
ten cents, potatoes were ten to fifteen cents a bushel, pork a dollar
and a half to a dollar seventy-five a barrel, chickens fifty to
seventy-five cents a dozen, turkeys ten to twenty-five cents each,
milch cows seven dollars. The first market for wheat opened at
thirty-seven and a half cents, and remained at that figure for two
or three years.
"We paid six bits a pound for coffee, which we only used on
Sunday, and six bits a yard for steam-mill cotton goods for shirts.
Men in those days worked from sun up to sun down for three bits
a day; cleared land in the gum woods for eight dollars an acre;
split rails for twenty-five cents per hundred, and reaped wheat
for fifty cents a day."
"In 1828 there wasn't such a thing known as a cast stove, and
there were no cook stoves until about 1835 or 1836. In 1825
there were no wood saws. The wood was chopped with an
ax. Such things as matches were unknown until about 1835,
and then they were of the rudest kind. A vial with some kind of
preparation in it was necessary, and a stick with sulphur on the
end, which, when put into this vial, would ignite. At last, some
man invented our present match. At first one had to have a piece
of sand paper, and when the matches were rubbed on this paper
they would light. These were called 'Locofoco matches.' "
OTHER VAWTERS
Robert Vawter, Coin, Page county, Iowa.
Dr. Vawter, Wellington, Kansas.
L. E. Vawter (son of Allan), Macomb, 111.
Dr. G. A. Vawter (son of Allan), Cambridge, Illinois.
Dr. H. M. Vawter (son of Allan), Knoxville, Iowa.
Captain Tazewell Vawter, died soon after the Civil War and
left a son at Elwood, Indiana.
Samuel T. Vawter, Francesville, Pulaski county, Indiana.
Two Vawter brothers at Burleson, Burleson county, Texas.
Vawters at Jefferson City, Missouri.
Miss Sallie Vawter, Graffenburg, Kentucky.
Miss Lida Vawter, Graffenburg, Kentucky.
Mrs. Mary A. Denham, Forktown, Kentucky, granddaughter
of Joseph Early Vawter.
Judge James T. Wilhoit, of Versailles, Woodford county,
Kentucky, is a descendant of Richard Vawter, of Madison
county, Virginia, who was probably the son of John the second
(see pages 6 and 7).
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CONTINUATION OF RECORD
i
INDEX
VAWTER FAMILY
The name in parenthesis is the name of the father, except in the case of a
married woman, wliere it is usually the maiden name.
PAGE
Absalom (Jesse) 319
Absalom (William H.) 319
Achilles (Jesse) 242, 243
Achilles J. (William) 141-143
Ada Rachel 314
Ada V 169
Adah Mary 317
A ddie 380
Albert C 118
Albert Jesse 131
Alexander 319
Alexander J 367
Alexander Lewis 364
Alexander Lewis, Jr 365
Alexander Stewart 299
Alfred Bnell 160
Alfred T 161
Alfred Z 2S8
Alice 381
Alice Pearl -jt,
Allan (Beverly) 2i7Z
Allan (John) 'j2
Allen Henderson 384
Allen Vaul 378
Allen V. (James J.) 378
Allene 379
Alma B 132
Alpheus 316
Alva Elroy 133
Amanda J 375
Anna (Henry) 246
Anna Belle 286
Anna Mae ■yj'j
Anne (Vawter) 7, 256, 257
Annie (Henry C.) 284
Annie (Joseph T.) 378
Annie (William H.) 319
Annie Gladys 118
Annie Laurie 171
Angus 6
Ansjus (John II) 7
Arthur (Edwin J.) 314
Arthur Lee 118
PAGE
Ara Bertie 376
Arlen O 288
Aureana (Vawter) 167, 328
Bartholomew " 6
Bartholomew (John II) 7
Benjamin F 135
Benjamin F. (Jephtha D. ) 2S3
Benjamin Irvin 132
Benjamin Stewart 300
Bennie B 380
Bertha (Charles H.) 28-,
Bertha M 245
Bertha May 112
Bert Watts 168
Bessie Alice 160
Bessie M 165
Beverly (Beverly) 7
Beverly (Philemon) 321-324
Beverly (John II) 7 .
Beverly (Russell) 373
Beverly P 381
Beverly S 374
Blanche B 280
Bradford 373
Brainard 171
Bruce 317
Carrie (William H.) 319
Carter 367
Cassius Lincoln 314
Catherine Ti
Chadwell yjT,, 374
Charles (Henry) 245
Charles A. (Presley) 278
Charles A. (Samuel) 374
Charles Bright ^J
Charles D 1 59
Charles Desmond ''iQ
Charles Elliott 3^5
Charles Erastus 384, 385
Charles Erastus, Jr 386
Charles Hart 160
Charles Henry 283
Charles Knowlton 127. 128
412
INDEX
PAGE
Charles Minton 68, 6q
Charles Publius 329
Charles P. L 329
Charles R. L 329
Charles William n?
Chester E 161
Clara Peck 385
Clare 111
Clarence (Henry C.) 284
Clarence Allan 72)
Clarence Dudley 281
Clarence Howell I59
Clarence M I35
Claude Philemon 2>2i^
Clifford 380
Clifford George 112
Clyde 246
Clyde Elmer 132
Colfax 166
Colonel 114
Cora Catherine 145, 146
Cornelius L. (Charles A.) 279
Cornelius L. (John Gray) 299
Cyrus (Beverly) 2,2,2,
Cyrus Philemon 332
David (Achilles) 2,44
David (David) 369
David (John H) 7, 8
David (Philemon) 362, 363
David Jamieson 313
David Wyatt 368
D. Lee 367
Delia S 317
Dewey 72)
Dick Mavity 330
Dora B 2)77
Dorothy L 170
Dotham 32Q
Dudlev 288
Earl V 27(^
Edgar (James) 246
Edgar (Jesse Holman) 162
Edgar Allen 380
Edgar Crawford 380
Edgar Frederick 112
Edgar S 380
Edmund Longley 386
Edith P 375
Edna (Roe) 163
Edna (Smith K.) 58
Edna Catherine 112
Edward 1 382
Edward (Edward I) 382
Edward (John T.) in, 112
Edward (Thomas S.) 171
Edward J 134
Edward W 137
Edwin (Edwin) 367
Edwin (John M.) 367
PAGE
Edwin (Milton) 171
Edwin (Smith) 57
Edwin James 124-126
Edwin James, Jr 126, 127
Edwin Jamieson 314
Elizabeth (Russell) 2,72)
Elizabeth Helper 299
Elizabeth Louise 160
Elizabeth Mary 384
Elbert 246
Eliza Jane 282, 283
Ella (Jesse Holman) 162
Ella Mae 72,
Ellie Bessie 329
Elliott (Philemon) 268-276
Elliott (William) 383
Elliott Gray 299
Elmer (Roe) 163
Elmer H 162
Elmer M 72,
Emery B 133
Emil 114
Emma (Henry) 170
Emma (John ) 23
Emma Knowlton 127
Ernest T 135
Ethel 279
Ettie Eugenie 368
Eugene 2)^7
Eva May 69
Everett Bates 151, 152
Everett E 132
Everett F 137
Evie L 378
Ezra 58
Fane F 280
Fanny S 170
Fern G 280
Florence May 171
Flossie Myrtle 135
Frances (Elliott) 27()
Frances (James) 163
Frances (Philemon) 75-79, 310
Frances Helen 161
Francis (Charles H.) 283
Francis Bertram 72
Francis Marion 1 18
Frank (Charles P.) 329
Frank (Elmer) 72)
Frank (Frank A.) 245
Frank A 245
Frank B 378
Frank C 168
Frank Day 72
Frank Edward 112
Frank M 146, 147
Frank Raymond 160
Frank S 374
Frank Wesley 112
\l
INDEX
PAGE
Frederick Allan 69
Fred Beverly 330
Fred Clay 283
Fred Mc 374
Frederick D 381
Freda Mildred 112
George (James) 246
George (Jesse Segal) 70
George (Smith) 58
George Adam 112
George B 280
George Early 2>17
George Hadley 146
George Lewis 368
George T 374
George W. (George T.) 374
George W. (John H.) 384
George William 286
George Williams 165
Goldie Call 282
Grace (Jesse Segal) 70
Grace G 134
Harold H 374
Harriet 319
Harry (Henry J.) 170
Harry Miller 147
Hattie Lilly 58
Hazel 171
Helen (Charles H.) 283
Helen Miller 147
Henry (Achilles) 245
Henry Alexander 384
Henry C. (Jesse Holman) 162
Henry Clay 283, 284
Henry Garfield 329
Henry J. (Newton W.) 170
Henry J. (Sherman) 137
Herman Wallace 318
Hickman N 55, 56
Homer G 374
Homer W 132
Horace R 73
Humphreys 331
Ice Reta 288
Ida Maria 142
Ida Ruth "jj,
Ira E 132
Isaac 374
James (Achilles) 246
James (Beverly) 331
James ( Frank) 245
James (Jesse) 154-158
James (William) 136
James Alois 160
James Alois, Jr 160
James Arthur 329
James C 163
James Elliott (Charles E.) 386
James Elliott (Jephtha) 286
413
PAGE
James Elliott (John H.) 384
James G 134
James Hardy 165
James Hiram 164
James J Zli, ill
James L 334
James Mavity 329
James M ^y7?^
James Oscar 131
James R 162
James S 168
Jamieson 317
Jamieson S 318
Jane (Achilles) 243
Jane (John Gray) 299
Jane Cravens 121, 122
Jannette .266
Jefferson D 318
Jephtha D 281
Jephtha Levi 283
Jennie 168
Jesse (David) 8, 10-21
Jesse (D. Jamieson) 316
Jesse (Fred A.) 69
Jesse (Philemon) 31 1-3 13
Jesse (Richard) 261
Jesse Beryl 161
Jesse Holman 161, 162
Jesse (Philemon) 311, 313
Jesse Piatt 314
Jesse R 128
Jesse Segal 70
Jessie (Jephtha L.) 283
Jessie (William H.) 319
Jessie Gertrude 329
Jessie Mae 147
Joe Philemon 318
John I 6
John II 6, 7
John (Beverly) z^Z
John (Jesse) 23-51
John (Jesse) (Philemon) 318
John (John) 318
John (Russell) yj?,
John (Smith) 58
John Beverly 326
John Blaine 133
John C 162
John E. (Joseph E.) 375
John E. (Presley) 278
John Earl 279
John Elmer "JZ
John Ferris 369
John Gray 299
John Gray. Jr 299
John Henderson 383, 384
John 1 132
John M'. (Beverly) 334
John iM. (David) z(^
414
INDEX
PAGE
John M. (George T.) 374
John Russell 373
John S. (Jesse R.) 131
John S. (John Watts) 160
John S. (Richard) 261
John Taylor 109-1 1 1
John T. (John Taylor) 117
John Terrell 54, 55
John Thomas 367
John Washington 281
John Watts 158, 159
John Wesley 316
John William (John H.) 384
John William (Louis) 385
John William (William M.) 376
Johnson S. (James) 163
Johnson Smith 165
Joseph (Richard) 332
Joseph Early 374, 375
Joseph M 377
Joseph Snyder 384
Joseph T 377
Joseph Thomas 378
Josephus R 379
Josiah 374
Junie Magnolia 369
Katie King 369
Katy A 375
Keith 326
Laura 283
Lena Virginia 317
Lena Elsie 329
Lenora Leigh ^ . . .386
Leona 379
Leonard F 286
Lewis (William) 8
Lewis Clyde 134
Lewis Henry 284
Lewis Orin 367
Leslie Wayne 286
Lillian 246
Lillian (Bennie) 380
Lillian Gray 299
Louis Addison 384
Louise 58
Lucy (Henry C.) 284
Lucy A 134
Lucretia (Branham) i6q, 192
Lulu May 329
Luna K 367
'Mabel 162
Macie Marie 171
Maria (Foster) 169, 189, 190
Marion 67
Margaret (David) 8
Margaret (Josephus) 380
Margaret (John H) 7
]Margaret Anne 384
Marjorie Dixon 127
PAGE
^lartha 376
Martha Clarice 73
Martha Eleanor 245
Mary (David) 8
Mary (Jesse) 320
Mary (John T.) 117
Mary (Storey) 54, 61
Mary (William H.) 319
Mary A. E 283
Mary Alice 314
Mary Allen 385
Mary Jane 57
Mary Lucile 330
Mary P 375
Mary Ruth (Albert) 118
Mary Ruth (Elmer) 73
Matie Octavia 368
Matilda 174
Maud (Charles M.) 6q
Maude (Joseph T.) 377
Mpude Illinois 376
May (Alfred T.) 161
A-Iay (Thomas M.) 367
Meiinda 330
Michael 117
Milly 319
Milton (Thomas S.) 171
Milton (Richard) 267
Milton B. (D. Jameson) 317, 318
Milton Ballard 318
?>Iilton Ben 31S
Milton Jamieson 317
Milton S 166, 167
Minerva E 137
Minnie E 160
Minnie (Jesse Holman) 161, 163
Minnie (Josephus) 380
Muriel Ben 318
Myrtle Lowell 282
Nadyne 168
Nancy (Russell) 373
Nancy A 375
Nancy Tandy 285
Nancy W 378
Nellie 137
Nellie Bly 73
Newton 162
Newton W 169, 189, 192
Noah James 318
Nona Elma 1 32
Octavia J 367
Olive S 165
Omer Walton 134
Otis Estis 131
Pamelia 1 14
Pascal 324
Patsy A 375
Pauline 374
Paul Leon 73
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INDEX
415
PAGE
Peachv 272,
Pearl E 132
Philemon (Beverly) 330, 331
Philemon (David) 8, 255-257
Philemon C 150, 151
Philemon (William) 314
Philip S 279
Pollv 2,72,
Presley G. (Elliott) 276-280
Presley G. (Presley) 280
Prospey 3^9
Ralph Emerson 72,
Rav 162
Ray P 277
Raymond 72
Raymond G 280
Rebecca 330
Rena 326
Rhoyden 168
Richard (Beverly) 332
Richard (Philemon) 258-260
Richard (John II) 7
Robert (William C.) 165
Robert Alfred 161
Robert Newton 170
Roe 163
Rufus L 280
Russell 271-272
Ruth (James G.) i34
Ruth E 280
Ruth Leotia 161
Sallie K 375
Samantha 222
Samuel (Beverly) 334
Samuel (Smith) 56
Samuel Dudley 282
Samuel M 374
Sophronia 374
Sarah (Johnson S.) 163
Sarah Frances i34
Sarah Jane 287
Sarah Lavina 284
Sarah Rebecca 131
Sears 2^7
Sherman 136, 137
Smith (John) 52-54
Smith K 58
Smith W 131
Spencer Coin 165
Stella May 286
Susan E 171
Thelma 380
Thomas (Jesse Holman) 162
Thomas (John M.) 367
Thomas S. (James) 171
Thomas S. (Joseph E.) 375
Trueman C 277
Velma Crystel 329
PAliE
Velma 1 135
Vernon Day 118
Vernon Hill t,t,^
Vernon Monroe 160
Veva J 288
Violo 380
Virginia Longley 386
Wallace 318
Wallace Read 152
Walter Allen 379
Walter Bachman 161
Walter Fred 283
Walter Lewis 368
Walter W 335
Washington R 375
Wayne 283
Wesson 367
Wilbert Carl 131
Wilbur Lutv 112
Wilbur Wiflis 165
Wiley R 317
William (Chadwell) 374
William TD. Jamieson) 313
William (David) 8
William (Edward I) 382
William (Jesse) 75-96
William (John Taylor) .. 112, 113, 114
William (Thomas S.) 376
William (Wm.) (Edward) 382
William Alfred 112
William Allan 129, 130
William Arthur 144. I45
William Arthur, Jr 146
William C. (James) 164
William Campbell 170
William Cornett 166
William Cyrus 3^4
William David 282
William DeWitt 378
William E 162
William H 3I9
William Hunter 152, I53
William Ira 222
William Ira, Jr 222
William J. (Jos. T.) 277
William (Jephtha) 287, 288
William Jennings 244
William L 246
William Riley 69
William S. (Jamieson) 317
William Smith 123, 124
William Scott II4
William W 280
Williamson Dunn 1 18-120
Willie Belle 73
Willis Isaiah 165
Winifred (John II) 7
Winifred (David) 8
OTHER THAN VAWTER
PAGE
Ackman, Anna 267
Adams, Alton M 294
Adams, Anna ( Hall) 360
Adams, Ira (Holmes) 294
Allen, Charles J 306
Allen, Frank Bratton 306
Allen, Frank G 305
Allen, George V 306
Allen, George William 306
Allen, Georgia Grace 306
Allen, Gertrude Alice 305
Allen, Grace Margarette 306
Allen, Horace D 305
Allen, Myrtle Grace 305
Allen, Ralph J 306
Allen, Robert Rush 306
Ambach, Sarah (Gatlin) 307
Amos, Lucinda (Holmes) 298
Amos, William A 299
Amos, Cora M 299
Amos, Lenna P 299
Amos, Perry H 299
Amsden, Abner 252
Amsden, Agnes 252
Amsden, Annie 251
Amsden, Charles 251
Amsden, Daisy 252
Amsden, Fred 251
Amsden, Gertrude 252
Amsden, Hayworth 252
Amsden, Howard 252
Amsden, Jesse V 251
Amsden, Leila 253
Amsden, Mabel 251
Amsden, Nancy (Moncrief) 251
Amsden, Nellie 251
Amsden, Robert 251
Amsden, Ruth 252
Amsden, William 252
Anderson, Allene 227
Anderson, Bertie Clair 227
Anderson, Gertrude 227
Anderson, Guy 227
Anderson, Hugh Leiper 227
Anderson, Josie (Sanford) 227
Anderson, Lillian Hester 227
Anderson, Lutie (Stribling) 225
Anderson, Ora 225
Anderson, Paul Chester 227
Anderson, William S 227
Atherton, Leona Crawford 342
PAGE
Atherton, Letitia (Crawford) . . . .342
Atherton, Rae M 342
Atwood, Arthur 187
Atwood, Ida (Walden) 187
Atwood, Ruby (Branham) 193
Atwood, Waldon 187
Bain, Harry 188
Bain, Jennie 188
Bain, Mary 188
Bain, Radie (Foster) 188
Baker, Carrie Margaret 66
Baker, Sarah (Campbell) 66
Baldwin, Jacob 196
Balzer, Emeline (Vanosdol) 116
Balzer, Harry 116
Balzer, Pearl 116
Banta, Clara 56 '
Banta, Frank 56
Banta, Irene ( Vawter) 56
Banta, Maria 56
Barker, Leroy A 298
Barker, Lula (Amos) 298
Barnes, Anna (Vawter) 300
Barnes, Kenneth B 300
Bamett, Charles Byron 228
Barnett, Sarah (Stribling) 228
Barnett, Walter Jackson 228
Battey, Alvin G 308
Battey, Nancy (Gatlin) 308
Baxter, Clara Ermine 376
Baxter, David 354
Baxter, Dow Vawter 376
Baxter, Emma (Vawter) 376
Baxter, ^Mildred May 376
Baxter, Nancy (Glover) 354
Bayley, Arthur Loring 102
Bayley, Bertha Alice 102
Bayley, Edith de Fluria 103
Bayley, Elizabeth (Burns) 102
Bayley, Frank Wade 102
Bayley, Gerald 102
Bayley, Gladys 102
Bayley, Henry Ward 102
Bayley, Floward Glen 103
Bayley, Minnie Agnes 103
Bayley, Willard Marion 103
P-eacham, Roberta (Holland) 263
Beacham, Norma 263
Beacham, Braxton B 263
Beacham, Roberta 263
Beechly, Emily (Vawter) 57
INDEX
i'Ac;e
Beeman, Qyde 139 Branham,
Beeman, Grace (Holsclaw) 139 Branham,
Beeman, Wilbur Elvin 139 Branham,
Bel], Allie 365 Branham,
Bell, Andrew L 364 Branham,
Bell, Donie Dowel 364 Branham,
Bell, Junior B 364 Branham,
Bell, ]\lajor T 364 Branham,
Bell, Mattie (Sterrett) 364 Branham,
Bell, Robert Ashby 364 Branham,
Benefiel, George Holman 162 Branham,
Benefiel, Mary (Vawter) 162 Branham,
Bickford, Marietta ( Branham) ••• I94 Branham,
Bicknell, Alberta 148 Branham,
Bicknell, Charlotte 148 Branham,
Bicknell, Ernestine 148 Branham,
Bicknell, Grace Constance 148 Branham,
Bicknell, Grace (Vawter) 147 Branham,
Binkley, Willie (Garden) 291 Branham,
Binkley, Annie Ree 291 Branham,
Binkley, Harry 291 Branham,
Binkley, Virgil 291 Branham,
Blair, Lucinda (Vawter) 330 Branham,
Boeckley, Enid Beth 115 Branham,
Boeckley, Sarah (Burckhardt) .... 115 Branham,
Bohall, Lulie (Jenkins) 186 Branham,
Bowling, Dessie (West) 350 Branham,
Bowling, Monroe 359 Branham,
Bowling, Ralph 350 Branham,
Bowling, Guy 359 Branham,
Bowman, Mattie (Edwards) 221 Branham,
Bowman, Milo 221 Branham,
Bramwell, Annasdale 213 Branham,
Bramwell, Bessie 213 Branham,
Bramwell, Dorothy 213 Branham,
Bramwell, Edgar 213 Branham,
Bramwell, Edna 21;^ Branham,
Bramwell, George F 213 Branham,
Bramwell, Harry L 213 Branham,
Bramwell, Julia (Vawter) 244 Branham,
Bramwell, Louise 213 Branham,
Bramwell, Nancy (Branham) 212 Branham,
Bramwell, William S 213 Branham,
Branham, Albert 210 Branham,
Branham, Alcey (Branham) 184 Branham,
Branham, Alice Irene 181 Branham,
Branham, Alta Irene 184 Branham,
Branham, Ardys 192 Branham,
Branham, Arthur E I95 Branham.
Branham, Benjamin 204 Branham,
Branham, Bertha B IQ5 Branham,
Branham, Bertha Lula 184 Branham,
Branham, Bromley E 192 Branham,
Branham, C. A I95 Branham,
Branham, Cecil Hunter 181 Branham,
Branham, Charles Greenleaf 181 Branham,
Branham, Charles H 208 Branham,
Branham, Charles N 208 Branham,
Branham, Danville (John) ... 189. 190 Branham,
4^7
P.\GK
Danville (Uriah) 187
David (Linsfield) . .204, 205
David C. (Edwin) 207
David C (William C.).I93
David Hickman 193
David McClure 208
David Owens 194
Davis 183, 184
Davis Bishop 184
Davis S 184
Delaney E 181
Donald (Delaney E. ) . . . 181
Donald (Bromley E.) . .192
Edith 179
Edna Marie 184
Edward (William) .... 170
Edward F 200
Edward L 195
Edward (John) 179
Edwin (David) 206
Edwin (David C. ) 207
Edwin (George F. ) . . . .2o5
Elizabeth 209
Eliz'bth (Branham) 191. 2C9
Elizabeth J 184
Elmer C 184
Ernest 2:0
Estel 185
Ethel Pearl 1S4
Etta 179
Eva May 105
Flora 179
Florence E 184
Frances (Vawter) 172-178
Frank 184
Fred 211
George (John) 179
George Chandler. . 193, 194
George F 206
George W. (John) 190-192
George W. (Uriah) 182
Gilbert C '9-
Grace I79
Granville 202
Hal Harwood 102
Harold Delaney 181
Harrye Bo3mton 192
Hazel 179
Helen Lee 209
Helen Louisa 207
Henry Clay 192
Hickman 208
Hiram S 180
Ida (James) I95
Ida (John) I79
Ida P 184
Ira E 184
J. Foster I79
James (John) i94
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INDEX
PAGE
Branham, James Ernest 184
Branham, James H. (Larose) .... 195
Branham, James Harvey 195
Branham, James N 187
Branham, Jennie 179
Branham, Jesse (Edward) 180
Branham, Jesse V. (Jesse) 180
Branham. Jesse V. (John) .. .178, 179
Branham, Jessie 193
Branham, John (William) 179
Branham, John Albert 184
Branham, John Clark 192
Branham, John Edward 195
Branham, John T 196
Branham, John Warner 192
Branham, Joseph (Davis) 184
Branham, Joseph Cary 194
Branham, Joseph Warren 214
Branham, Jnd J 185
Branham, Katherine E 207
Branham, Larose 195
Branham, Lester E 184
Branham, Lillian 179
Branham, Lolla 211
Branham, Lynn C 209
Branham, Mabel Clare 184
Branham, McClure 209, 210
Branham, Maria 182
Branham, Mary 192
Branham, Mary (Bramwell) 206, 213
Branham, Mary ( Vawter) . . . 198-201
Branham, Mary Ufiford 209
Branham, Minnie (Charles H.)...2o8
Branham, Minnie (William Hick-
man) 20Q
Branham, Nannie 208
Branham, Nellie 179
Branham, Oscar 206
Branham, Robert 180
Branham, Roger Vawter 181
Branham, Roscoe R 184
Branham, Russell C 184
Branham, Sadie 179
Branham, Samantha 210
Branham, Sophronia 205
Branham, Sarah Adaline 206
Branham, Scott 179. 184
Branham, Smith Vawter 196
Branham, Spencer Vance 184
Branham, Stella (George C.) 194
Branham, Stella (Scott) 179
Branham, Thom>as F 181
Branham, Thomas Leon 181
Branham, Uriah (George W.) ... .182
Branham, Uriah (John) 181, 182
Branham, Vera .187
Branham, William (David) 207
Branham, William (Jesse V.)....i79
PAGE
Branham, William (Hickman (Me-
linda)) 208
Branham, William (Hickman
(Jane)) 20S
Branham, William (John) 179
Branham, William (William) 179
Branham, William Allan 205
Branham, William Cummings. . . . 193
Branham, William Hickman 207
Branham, William Jennings 210
Branham, Zerelda 179
Briggs, Melissa (Vawter) 380
Briggs, Roberta 380
Briggs, Victoria 381
Brooks, Artemus 116
Brooks, Aurora 116
Brooks, Daisy 183
Brooks, Gerald 1 16
Brooks, Mary (Vanosdol) 116
Brooks, Matilda (Branham) 183
Brooks, Orlando Parks 183
Brougher, Lillian (Cornelius) .... 197
Brown, Cora (Vawter) 131
Brown, Dorothy M 325
Brown, Earl Radford 325
Brown, Ida 185
Brown, Mary (Branham) 185
Brown, Mary Freda 186
Brown, Morton 185
Brown, Myrtle M 325
Brown, Rosa Blanche (Hedges) . . .325
Brown, Wilbur Fee 131
Brown, William H 185
Burckhardt, Frances (Vawter),
114, 115
Burckhardt, George 115
Burckhardt, John Frederick 115
Burckhardt, Lulu Christman 115
Burckhardt, Mamie 115
Burckhardt, Margaret Pamelia. . . . 115
Burckhardt, Mary Elizabeth 115
Burns, Alice (Branham) 181
Burns, Anna Gertrude 98
Burns, Byron Elliot 99
Bums, Charles 241
Burns, Charles F 98
Burns, Charles W 99
Burns, Danforth loi
Burns, David V 100, lOi
Burns, Edith loi
Burns, Edward 241
Burns, Ellen 241
Burns, Grace loi
Burns, Harrison 99
Burns, Hiram D 180
Burns, James 98
Bums, Jasper 241
Bums, Jesse V 98
INDEX
419
PAGE
Burns, Joseph Lee 98
Burns, Lee 99, 100
Burns, Livingston S 100
Bums, Mack 241
Burns. Margaret 99
Burns. Maria (Vawter) 96
Burns, Mary Wise 241
Burns, Nellie loi
Bums, William Conduit 99
Burns. William Douglas iSi
Burns, William V 98
Burns, Susan 241
Calloway, Juliette (Branham) 210
Calloway, Marian 210
Calloway, Myrtle Helen 210
Campbell, Emily (Vawter) 65
Campbell, Gamette Carolyn 67
Campbell, Gladys 67
Campbell, Glenn Solon 67
Campbell, Hazel 66
Campbell, James Burt 66
Campbell, Jane (Foster) 189
Campbell, John 65
Campbell, John D 67
Campbell, Joseph Allan ... 66
Campbell. Kemper Bramwell 67
Campbell, Mary (Allan) 65
Campbell, Mary (John) 65
Campbell, Smith Vawter 65
Campbell, Solon B 66
Campbell, Vernon Otterman 66
Garden, Clara May 291
Garden, Clarence A 291
Garden, Corinne 290
Garden, Earl 290
Garden, Gertrude 290
Garden, Grace 201
Garden, Hansel 290
Garden, Hebren 290
Garden, James 290
Garden, James Lewis 289
Garden, Jesse 291
Garden, John H 290
Garden, Lee 291
Garden, Loto 290
Garden, Marguerite 290
Garden, Rollie 291
Garden, Ruth 290
Garden, Sarah (Tutt) 289
Carey, Augusta i,34
Carey. Elvira (Vawter) 134
Carey, Lila I34
Carey, Vivian I34
Carnegie, May (Ward) 252
Carney, Lizzie (W^est) 358
Carney, Edward 358
Carrell, Genevieve 307
Carrell, Lake E. 307
Carson, Edwinnie I39
PAGE
Carson, Ethel Grace 139
Carson, Hazel Lavone 139
Carson, Jennie (Holsclaw) 139
Carson, Lizzie 139
Catching, Ben H 347
Catching, J. Reuben 347
Catching, Jesse Franklin 347
Catching, Nira (Smith) 347
Catching, Oliver C 347
Chaffin, Gertrude (Tidd) 240
Chaille, Ann (Stribling) 229
Chaille, Bertha Elizabeth 108
Chaille, D. D 230
Chaille, Elmer V 230
Chaille, Elmore J 230
Chaille, Emerson Wayland 234
Chaille, Emest 234
Chaille, Floyd 231
Chaille, Freda 234
Chaille, Grace 234
Chaille, Harold L 234
Chaille, J. H 230
Chaille, J. Howard 231
Chaille, Jennie Stott 108
Chaille, Jesse V 234
Chaille. Jessie Katrine 234
Chaille, John C 234
Chaille, John E 230
Chaille, Josiah F 231
Chaille, Josiah M 234
Chaille. Loyd 231
Chaille, M. A 230
Chaille, May Corinne 234
Chaille, Newton T 230
Chaille, Oren 234
Chaille, Ravmond 234
Chaille, Ruth Jane 234
Chaille, Sarah ( Stribling) 233
Chaille, Thomas D 234
Chaille, Tibit 230
Chaille, Uriah 234
Chaille, Vivian 230
Chaille, W. W 230
Chaille, William H. (William H.) 231
Chaille, William Hickman 231
Chaille, William T 234
Childers, Josephine (Rossen) 232
Church. Alice Crawford 342
Clark, Mattie (Moody) 303
Clarkson, Albert V 129
Glarkson, Bertha May 129
Clarkson, Edith Idella 129
Clarkson. Elizabeth ( Vawter) 129
Glarkson, Elvin Grant 129
Clarkson, Jesse F 129
Clarkson. Thomas Osborn 129
Cobb, George O 206
Cobb, George O., Jr 206
Cobb, Harold 206
420
INDEX
PAGE
Cobb, Hazel 206
Cobb, John M 206
Cobb, John Malcomb 206
Cobb, Lulu 206
Cobb, Mary (Branham) 205
Cobb, Pearl 206
Cobb, Raymond 206
Cobb, Samuel H 206
Cobb, Samuel H., Jr 206
Coffey, Cecil Louise 195
Coffey, Josephine 195
Coffey, Jule Hubert 195
Coffey, Nelle (Branham) 195
Coffey, Thatcher Howe 195
Cole, Fannie (Vawter) 318
Cole, John 319
Cole, Mary 319
Coleman, Clayton Carrell 309
Coleman, Dwight Leonidas 309
Coleman, James A 354
Coleman, Lucinda 354
Coleman, Mary (Gatlin) 309
Coleman, Shirley Vawter 309
Coleman, Thomas 354
Conger, Beulah 291
Conger, Guy 291
Conger, Ida (Carden) 290
Conger, Lena 290
Conger, Martha (Lewis) 35:
Conger, Vera 291
Conover, H. D 344
Conover, O. M 344
Cook, Anne (Vawter) 383
Cook, Bertha 379
Ccok, Burleson 379
Cook, Clinton 379
Cook, Frederick 379
Cook, Gladys (Foster) 189
Cook, Leyton Leroy 380
Cook, Mary 379
Cook, Melissa Tola 379
Cook, Nancy (Vawter) 379
Cook, William Peyton 380
Cooke, David Vawter 369
Cooke, Martha L. (Vawter) 369
Corbitt, Annie Mary 224
Corbitt, Alvin Hawkins 224
Corbitt, Bates 229
Corbitt, Bessie 229
Corbitt, Bessie Rewbine 224
Corbitt, Desmukes 229
Corbitt, Eddie Smith 224
Corbitt, Emerine (Stribling) 223
Corbitt, Emma 224
Corbitt, Flora Elton 224
Corbitt, Gladys 224
Corbitt, Grace 229
Corbitt, Hessie 224
Corbitt, Jesse Vawter 224
PAGE
Corbitt, Jessie Allen 224
Corbitt, Mollie (Miller) 229
Corbitt, Nancy 224
Corbitt, Odia 229
Corbitt, Pleasant Stribling 224
Corbitt, Reuben E 224
Corbitt, Sadie Pauline 224
Corbitt, Weldon Plant 224
Corbitt, William H 229
Corbitt, Wyley Welch 224
Cornelius, Ernest (Henry) 197
Cornelius, Ernest (Harry) 197
Cornelius, Grace Alice 197
Cornelius, Harry B 197
Cornelius, Lucy (Foster) 196
Cornelius, Marjorie 197
Cornelius, Rade 197
Cornelius, Royal 197
Costigan, Ellen (Branham) 210
Covert, Edith (Branham) 192
Covert, John Stanley 193
Crane, Helen Mary 212
Crane, Julia (Robinson) 211
Crawford, Arthur 342
Crawford, B. Vawter 346
Crawford, Beverly V 341
Crawford, Clyde Franklin 346
Crawford, Clyde Piatt 342
Crawford, Cora May 342
Crawford, Edwin Manifred 343
Crawford, Elvin J 343
Crawford, Elvin J., Jr 343
Crawford, George 343
Crawford, Gertrude 342
Crawford, Goodwin 344
Crawford, Henry Paschal 341
Crawford, J. Spencer 342
Crawford, James Vawter 346
Crawford, Janet Content 342
Crawford, Jasper Garfield 343
Crawford, Jasper Vincent 3J.2
Crawford, Jasper Vincent, Jr 342
Crawford, Jesse Dunlap 343
Crawford, Lewis Guy 346
Crawford, Lucy (Vawter) . . . .336-338
Crawford, Margaret 342
Crawford, Orville Franklin 343
Crawford, Otheo 344
Crawford, Otheo Glenn 343
Crawford, Philemon Vawter
(James) 338-341
Crawford, Philemon V. (Jasper
V.) 342
Crawford, Philemon V. (Henry).. 342
Crawford, Philemon Vawter (El-
vin J.) . 344
Crawford, Richard F 342
Crawford, Robert 338
Crawford, Robert Neal 343
INDEX
421
PAGE
Crawford, Ulric L 344
Crawford, Uleric Zwingle 344
Crawford. Virginia E 342
Crawford, William Vawter 342
Crawford, William Vawter, Jr 342
Crawford, Zilpha 345
Cronkhite. Ida (Hedges) 3^5
Cronkhite, Mary E 325
Crum, Flora M I34
Crnm, Jamie A I34
Crum. Mary (Vawter) 134
Cull. Sylvia (Vawter) 318
Curtis. Lillian 231
Daniels, Kate (Holland) 263
Dalv. Martha (Branham) 194
Davis, Daniel 190
Davis, Edward 190
Davis. Elizabeth (Branham) 190
Davis. James 190
Davis, John 190
DeGarmo, James Ralph 310
Denger. Myrtle (Hedges) 326
Deupree, Alva William 170
Dickson, Allie 230
Dickson, Alonzo 230
Dickson, Edgar 230
Dickson. Elizabeth (Chaille) 230
Dixon, Donald Storey 62
Dixon. Dorothy 62
Dixon, Esther Claire 62
Dixon, Kate (Calloway) 210
Dixon, Kate (Storey) 6r. 62
Donlon, Lillian (Williamson) 301
Doubt. Eleanor (Fruit) 277
Doughtj', Virginia (Vawter) 317
Draper, Nannie (Vawter) 334
Duncan, Emma (Corbitt) 224
Dunlap, Elvin Crawford 345
Dunlap, George L 345
Dunlap. John B 344
Dunlap, Lou Bessie Ella 345
Dunlap, Mary (Crawford) 344
Dunlap, William P 345
Dunning, Carrie 7°
Dunning. Earl Raymond 70
Dunning, Luella 7°
Dunning, Mary (Vawter) 70
Dunning. Tillie Allan 70
Eads, Arthur 319
Eads, Clifford 319
Eads. Drucilla (Vawter) 319
Eads, Edward 3^9
Eads, Harry 319
Eads, Lena 319
Eads. Mary 319
Eads, Robert 3^9
Eads, Sherley 31O
Edwards, Charles 221
Edwards, Edgar Flavins 221
PAGE
Edwards, Flavins 221
Edwards, Frances ( Stribling).220, 221
Edwards, Frank 221
Edwards, Gus ^L^lcomb 221
Edwards, Hettie J 221
Edwards, John Malcomb 221
Edwards, ^lary Zerelda 221
Edwards, William T 221
Edwards, William Thomas 221
Eichelberger. Elizabeth (Vaughn)267
Elder, Emma (Lewis) 366
Enix, Clara M 326
Enix, Elmo 326
Enix, Lourena (Hedges) 326
Evans, Elizabeth (Hunter) 239
Everson, Cora (Brown) 185
Everson, Howard 185
Everson, Lenore 185
Farnier, ^Matilda (Vawter) 384
Feagler, Bessie 149
Feagler, Charles Alfred 149
Feagler, Charles A. (James W. )..I49
Feagler, Fannie Fern 149
Feagler, Florence Edith 149
Feagler. Fred Willard 149
Feagler, James William 148
Feagler, Marie i49
Feagler, Marie Cordelia 148
Feagler, Mary (Vawter) 148
Feagler, Merlin Duncan 149
Feagler, Philemon Edwin 149
Feagler, Roena Kate 150
Feagler, Rose Bonnel 149
Feagler, Vawter John 149
Felts, Albert Garland 302
Felts. Eben Vick 302
Felts, Effie Vick 302
Felts, Florence (Williamson) 302
Felts, Garnett Elbert 302
Felts, Herbert Guy ,302
Fenton, Effie (Crawford) 343
Fenton, Orin 343
Fenton, Ralph 343
Fenton, Theda 343
Fergason. Elizabeth (Stribling).. .221
Fesler, Esther 7i
Fesler, James Leon 71
Fesler, Jennie A 71
Fesler, Martha (Obenshain) 71
Fesler, Susie C 7i
Fesler, Timothy C 71
Fink, Louisa (Vawter) 369
Firebaugh, Alice (Hedges) 325
Firebaugh. Harold 325
Firebaugh, Lee 325
Firebaugh. Lela 325
Firebaugh, Lois 325
Firebaugh. P. T. Norman 325
Fisher. Edna 334
422
INDEX
PAGE
Fisher, Mollie (Vawter) 334
Fitzhngh, Carrell C 308
Fitzhugh, Clarence H 308
Fitzhugh, Edgar J 308
Fitzhugh, Faye Pearl 308
Fitzhugh, Gordon D 308
Fitzhugh, Hallie 308
Fitzhugh, Harry F 308
Fitzhugh, Kate (Gatlin) 307
Fitzhugh, Mack A 308
Fitzhugh, Roy W 308
Fleming, Mary (O'Conner) 183
Ford, Annie Asilee 292
Ford, Corene 292
Ford, Delia May 292
Ford, Lorene 292
Ford, Mary Alice 292
Ford, Mary (Whitaker) 292
Ford, Neppie Virginia 292
Ford, Tripsley D 292
Ford, William Dudley 292
Forester, Alen Fowler 223
Forester, Esrom Boid 22},
Forester, George Monroe 223
Forester, Mary (Fergason).. .222, 222,
Foster, Arthur 189
Foster, Audrey 188
Foster, Frances 196
Foster, Gayle 189
Foster, George R 197
Foster, Harold 188
Foster. Jane ( Branham ) 196
Foster, John A 1S9
Foster, Jonathan 18S
Foster, Leland 188
Foster, Leslie 189
Foster, Mary (Branham) 187
Foster, Radie 188
Foster, Raymond 189
Foster, Watts 189
Foster, William J 188
Fowlkes, Ella (Malcomb) 226
Fox, Maggie (Glover) 361
Freeman, Myrtie (Mitchell) 297
Freeman, Thelma 297
Freeman, Willie P 297
Fruit, Allen Jefferson 277
Fruit, Bessie 2"/"]
Fruit, Edmund Presley 2TJ
Fruit, Elizabeth (Vawter) 2TJ
Fruit, Julian Elliott 278
Fruit, Logan Brown 277
Fruit, Rhoda Elizabeth 277
Fruit, Walter E 278
Fuller, Zilpha (Little) 344
Gatlin, Charles 309
Gatlin, Faye 309
Gatlin, Jephtha D 308
Gatlin, Lake E 309
PAGE
Gatlin, Nancy (Vawter) 304
Gatlin, Ross 309
Gatlin, Wayne 309
George, Emma (Gatlin) 309
George, Max B 309
George, Ollie Vawter 309
Gibbens, Fred A 309
Gibbens, James D 309
Gibbens, Laura lone 309
Gibbens, Margaret (Gatlin) 309
Gibbens, Ray R 309
Gibbens. Vawter Morton 309
Gill, Lida (Hedges) 327
Gillan, Augusta (Hinman) 284
Gillan, Charles Ross 284
Gillan, Edna May 284
Gillan, Harrj' Laurence 284
Gillan, Laura Maud 284
Gillan, Lewis Elbert 284
Gillan, Mabel Augusta 284
Gillan, Margaret 285
Gillan, Mary (Hinman) 284
Gillan. Nellie Margaret 284
Gillan, Nina May 284
Gillan, Richard Hugh 284
Gillan, Ruth Caroline 284
Gillan, Walter Hinman 285
Gillan, Walter Leigh 284
Giltner, Cordelia 355
Giltner, Charles T 355
Giltner, Charlotte 355
Giltner, Elenorah 355
Giltner, Florence 355
Giltner, George 355
Giltner, Mea 355
Giltner, Sarah (West) 355
Giltner, T. H 355
Giltner, William A 355
Giovannoli, Agnes Price 265
Giovannoli, Annie Mosley 265
Giovannoli, Charles Leonard 264
Giovannoli, Harry (Andrea) 264
Giovannoli, Harry (Harry) 264
Giovannoli, Katherine (Harris) . . .263
Giovannoli, Louise Katherine 265
Giovannoli, Olive Mai]garet. . .264, 265
Giovannoli, Robert Kinnaird 264
Gish, Alice (Garden) 289
Gish, Laura 289
Gish, Jacob 289
Glover, David J 361
Glover, Elizabeth (Vawter) 320
Glover, Elizabeth (Vawter).. .352-354
Glover, Elliott V 361
Glover, James 361
Glover, Philemon 361
Glover, Samuel 361
Glover, William 361
Good, Donnel 187
INDEX
423
PAGE
Good, Edgar 187
Good, Jessie 187
Good, Lillian 187
Good, ^laggie 187
Good, Mary (Walden) 187
Good, Nora 187
Goodson, Addie 278
Goodson, Alice 278
Goodson, Harry 278
Goodson, Hattie 278
Goodson, Nancy (Vawter) 278
Goodson, Orson 278
Goodson, Thomas 278
Gordon, Mary 179
Gordon, Mary (Branham) 179
Gordon, Rosalie (Vawter) 374
Graham, Eliza M. (Williamson) . .300
Graham, Althea 300
Graham, Catherine Eliza 301
Graham, Edwin D 301
Graham, James W 301
Graham, Joseph Irwin 301
Graham, Prince Alphonso 301
Graham, Robert Lacy 300
Graham, Sarah 300
Gray, Bertha (Vawter) 135
Gray, Charles P 232
Gray, Ezra William 135
Gray, Margaret (Stribling) 232
Greer, Eliza (Amos) 298
Greer, Mildred J 298
Gregg, Esther (Vawter) 262
Gregg, George Vawter 262
Gregg, James ^Madison 262
Griffith, Imogene (Vawter) 314
Grindell, Claude 180
Grindell, George 180
Grindell, Ida (Branham) 180
Grindell, Sophronia 180
Grindell, William 180
Grinstead, Anna (Lewis) 351
Grinstead, Bertha Edith 133
Grinstead, Carl James 134
Grinstead, Claud Ellsworth 133
Grinstead, Emma Ethel 134
Grinstead, Esther 133
Grinstead, Fannie Bell 133
Grinstead, Jesse Edward 133
Grinstead, Lew Emmerson 133
Grinstead, Marshall 351
Grinstead, Myrtle Blanche 133
Grinstead, Nancy 351
Grinstead, Sarah (Vawter) 133
Grinstead Vila Gail 134
Grinstead, William Wirt 351
Gullet, Alice 180
Gullet, Edward , 180
Gullet, Elberta Louise 180
Gullet, Louisa (Branham) 180
PAGE
Gullet, William Fitch 180
Gullet, William Lou 180
Ha^an, Ibba 378
Hagan, Virgil Vawter 378
Hagan, Mar\' (Vawter) 378
Hall, Arthur 360
Hall, E. Roy 360
Hall, Emma (West) 360
Hall, Blanche 360
Ham, Clarence 197
Ham, Eugene 197
Ham, Grace 197
Ham, Lora 197
Ham. Maud (Cornelius) 197
Hardin, Ada S S7i<
Hardin, Dewey S 378
Hardin, Eva A 378
Hardin, Irene 378
Hardin, Mintie (Vawter) 378
Hardin, Nellie 378
Hardin, Ray 378
Hardy, Sarah (Vawter) 164
Harold, Minnie (Vawter) 334
Harper, Zulah (Chaille) 231
Harris, Beverly Humphreys 331
Harris, Charles 265
Harris, Edward 265
Harris, Edwin Vawter 331
Harris, Elizabeth (Vawter) 262
Harris, Ellen 265
Harris, George H 262
Harris, Hettie Vawter 331
Harris, Margaret M 263
Harris, Martin V 263
Harris, Mary Louise 265
Harris, Rebecca 263
Harris, Richard Perry 26:?
Harris, Sarah (Vawter) 331
Harris, Sarah Elizabeth 262
Harris, Thomas Perry 263
Harrison, Nannie (San ford) 227
Harwood, May (Vawter) ... .120, 121
Hawkins, Nancy (Vawter) 7
Hawley, Ellen (Goodson) 278
Hayden, Isaiah 319
Hayden. Nancy (Vawter) 319
Heath, Adaline (Vawter) 130
Heath, Bowen C, Jr 131
Heath, Fern 131
Heath, James H 130
Heath, Ray 130
Heath, Ruth 131
Heath, Sarah A 130
Heath, William A 130
Hedges, Albion Tourgee 327
Hedges. Arthur 325
Hedges, Ashba V 327
Hedges, Ashba V., Jr 327
Hedges, Bertram 325
424
INDEX
PAGE
Hedges, Charles E 2,2'1
Hedges, Charles M 325
Hedges, Dora A 325
Hedges, Effie Grace 2)^7
Hedges, Eva Luella z^l
Hedges, Fred A 325
Hedges, Grace 325
Hedges, Herman 325
Hedges, John M 327
Hedges, Levi Marion 328
Hedges, Lora O Z^l
Hedges, Mary (Thaddeus) 325
Hedges, Mary A. (Vawter) 324
Hedges, Mary Mildred 2,-1
Hedges, Mattie D 325
Hedges, Melinda S 327
Hedges, Mildred 325
Hedges, Perpecta Marie 328
Hedges, Samantha ( Vawter) 326
Hedges, Thaddeus A 325
Hedges, Thelma Alay 327
Hedges, Walter G 328
Hedges, William R ZV
Heflin, Abner 250
Heflin, Charles 250
Heflin, Effie 250
Heflin, Elizabeth (Moncrief) 250
Heflin, Jasper 250
Heflin, John Caleb 250
Heflin, Lilly 250
Heflin, Mary J 250
Heflin, Wilford 250
Heflin, William Jasper 250
Henson, Ed 290
Henson, Pearl 290
Hilton, Emma (Obenshain) 71
Hilton, Fred E 71
Hinchman, Lucy 253
Hinman, Eva May 285
Hinman, Henry Vawter 284
Hinman, Lucinda (Vawter) 284
Hinman, Nina Jane 285
Hinman, Richard Franklin 285
Hobart, Julia (Tripp) 203
Hobson, Eliza (Smith) 300
Hobson, Ladie 300
Hockmuth, Ora (Grinstead) 133
Hodge, Mary (Tutt) 292
Holland, Amanda (Harris) 262
Holland, Benjamin B 263
Holland, Capitola Elizabeth 263
Holland, Clara 263
Holland, Daniel C 263
Holland, Francis Arthur 263
Holland, James E 263
Holland, Richard L 263
Holland, Roberta 263
Holmes, Charles H 295
Holmes, Dudley 298
PAGE
Holmes, George W 299
Holmes, Henry B 298
Holmes, Henry Clay 294
Holmes, Henry Cornelius 294
Holmes, James D 295
Holmes, Jephtha Burnley 294
Holmes, John Elliott 295
Holmes, John P 294
Holmes, Lance D 295
Holmes, Lether C 295
Holmes, Lottie B 295
Holmes, Lucinda 294
Holmes, Lucinda (Vawter) 293
Holmes, Martha F 294
Holmes, Mary L 295
Holmes, Millie A 295
Holmes, Nancy C 294
Holmes, Nellie 1 295
Holmes, Presley Dudley 297
Holmes, Riley L 294
Holmes, William E 295
Holmes, William B 298
Holmes, William H 295
Holton, Adda 130
Holton, Amelia (Vawter) 130
Holton, Annie J 130
Holton, Clyde E 130
Holton, Elizabeth 130
Holton, Lelia May 130
Holton, Meta 130
Holsclaw, Alma 139
Holsclaw, Almira ( King) 138
Holsclaw, Blanche Vernon 139
Holsclaw, Bertha Alice 140
Holsclaw, Ezra 138, 139
Holsclaw, Gladys 139
Holsclaw, Hubert 139
Holsclaw, Jacob Harrison 139
Holsclaw, Jessie 139
Holsclaw, Mary Belle 139
Holsclaw, Ruth 139
Holsclaw, Smith 139
Holsclaw, William E 139
Hunter, Eva Jean 240
Hunter, James Vincent 239
Hunter, Lucretia (Wise) 239
Hunter, Mary E 278
Hunter, Ollie M 278
Hunter, Ophelia (Vawter) 278
Hutsell, Alva 357
Hutsell, Amy Leo 357
Hutsell, Emory Edward 357
Hutsell, Eveline (Payne) 357
Hutsell, Tressa May 357
Irwin, Anna (Vawter) 332
Irwin, Joseph 332
Irwin, Vawter Oliver 2Z~
Isaacs, Alfred Abram 277
Isaacs, Nancy (Fruit) 277
INDEX
4-25
PAGE
Isaacs, Thomas Edmund 277
Isaacs, Walter Fruit 277
Jackson, Kate (Bamett) 228
Jackson, Lucy (Neblett) 222
Jenkins, Annie (Walden) 186
Jenkins, Carrie 57
Jenkins, Fannie 186
Jenkins, Georgia A 186
Jenkins, Hazel Etta 186
Jenkins, Jennie (Beechly) 57
Jenkins, Vawter 57
Jenkins, Virginia 57
Johnson, Grace (Torbet) 253
Johnson, Jennie (Vawter) 332
Jones, A. Foster 189
Jones, Emma 365
Jones, Francis Vawter 342
Jones, Gayle A 189
Jones, Gladys O 189
Jones, Harry 365
Jones, Harry Allen 306
Jones, Isabelle A 189
Jones, Lizzie 365
Jones, M. Pearle 189
Jones, Mabel 365
Jones, Mary 365
Jones, Mattie (Foster) 189
Jones, Maud (Crawford) 342
Jones, Merril 365
Jones, Melnotte B 189
Jones, N. Augusta 189
Jones, Olive 188
Jones, Royal C 189
Jones, Virginia (Gatlin) 305
Joyce, Hettie (Vawter) 331
Joyce, Maurice Humphreys 331
Kanoff, Ethel F 305
Kanoff, George W 305
Kanoff, Grace (Allen) 305
Kanoff, Harold F 305
Kanoff, Hazel Hester 305
Kanoff, J. Wilson 305
Kanoff, John Homer 305
Kendall, Mary (Sheehan) 265
Kenny, Edith (Stott) 108
Kerr, Arleigh Robert 169
Kerr, Effie (Vawter) 169
Kerr, Mary (Vawter) 383
Kerr, Rees Vawter 169
Kerr, Stanley 169
Kessick, Emma 241
Kessick, Julia 241
Kessick, Matthew 241
Kessick, Mollie 241
Kessick, Patsy (Wise) 241
Kessick, Prudence 241
Kimball, Alicia 343
Kimball, Clark 343
Kimball, Duane 343
I'AUE
Kimball, Mary L. (Crawford).. . .343
King, Addie A 356
King, Alzora 140
King, Edna Hazel 140
King, Ezra 140
King, Frances (Vawter) 137, 138
King, George Elvin 140
King, Grace (Feagler) 149
King, Hazel (Mitchell) 246
King, Helen Grace 149
King, James B 356
King, Lula Ellis 140
King, Mildred Rose 149
King, Mollie (West) 356
King, Robert Feagler 149
King, Russell Aubrey 149
King, William V 140
Kincart, Lillie (Hefiin) 250
Kingsley, Jennie (Wise) 240
Kirk, Mary (Garden) 290
Kittle, Annie (Moncrief) 254
Kyle, Katherine (Vawter) 246
Kyle, Ralph V 246
Larkins, Grace (Storey) 63
Larkins, Storey 63
Laswell, Jesse Pearl (Vawter) .... 135
Laswell, Millie Myree 135
Laswell, Minerva May 135
Lattimore, Emma (Storey) 64
Leavitt, Charles Dunn 120
Leavitt, Florence Mary 120
Leavitt, Ellen (Vawter) 120
Lee, Fannie (Vawter) 170
Lee, Fanny Jane 170
Lewis, Amanda (Vawter) 365
Lewis, Annie Ethel 346
Lewis, Annie L 366
Lewis, Charles 351
Lewis, David 350
Lewis, Edwin 351
Lewis, Eunice Viola 346
Lewis, Floyd Lindsay 346
Lewis, Francis Crawford 345
Lewis, Francis 351
Lewis, Henry 365
Lewis, Josie Mary 346
Lewis, Lester Ambrose 346
Lewis, Lila Catherine 346
Lewis, Louisa (Crawford) 345
Lewis, Nancy (Vawter) 350
Lewis, Nina E 351
Lewis, Oran Wright 346
Lewis, Pauline 351
Lewis, Ralph Everett 346
Lewis. Rilla Ainslee 346
Lewis, Sarah E 366
Little. Margaret (Crawford) 344
Loomis, George D 104
Loomis, Grace B 104
426
INDEX
PAGE
Loomis, Sallie (Bums) 103, 104
Long, Carrie (Robinson) 212
Long, George S., Jr 212
Long, Helen 212
Long, Margaret R 212
Lukenbill, Kenneth 247
Lukenbill. Virginia (Read) 247
Luther, Anice 297
Luther, Charley Lucille 297
Luther, Horace 296
Luther, Mattie (Mitchell) 296
Luther, Mitchell 297
Luther, Myrtie Bernice 297
Luther, .Raymond 296
Luther, Shirley 296
Malcomb, Alnieda (Stribling) 225
Malcomb, Dixie 226
Malcomb, Edith 226
Malcomb, Gertrude 226
Malcomb, Hattie C 226
Malcomb, Howard Ford 226
Malcomb, Hubert A 226
Malcomb, John Levin 226
Malcomb, John Lilbern 226
Malcomb, Mary 226
Malcomb, Robert F 226
Malcomb, Ronald 226
Malcomb, Samuel Guy 226
Marsh, Mariema (Foster) 197
Marsh, Sarah I97
Marshall, Carrie 239
Marshall, Charles 239
Marshall, Esther Lee 364
Marshall, Frank 239
Marshall, Frank (Frank) 239
Marshall, George 239
Marshall, Hennie De 364
Marshall, Jessie ( Walden) 187
Marshall, Julia Ferrel 364
Marshall, Julia (Wise) 238
Marshall, Mary A. (Sterrett) 364
Marshall, Mattie B 364
Marshall, Nellie 239
Martin, Belle (Wise) 240
Martin, David Alexander 240
Martin, Esther Storey 240
Martin, Helen Ruth 240
Martin, Lucy Neal 240
McCann, Ida Lewis 366
McCann, Ethel 366
McCann, James W 366
McAllister, Arnice Lee 297
McAllister, Dommie (Mitchell).. .297
McAllister, Gladys Love 297
McAllister, Mattie Aleen 297
McAllister, William Macon 297
McCauley, Frank D 202
McCauley, Lydia (Stribling) 225
McCauley, Marge 225
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McCauley, Mary L 225
McCauley, Pearle 202
McCauley, Vida (Webb) 202
McColley, Carrie 187
McColley, Elizabeth (Walden).. .. 187
McColley, James 187
McColley, Walter 187
McColley, William 187
McColm, George Elmer 285
McColm, Louisa Ellen (Vawter)..285
McColm, Viola Olivia 285
McDaniels, James 266
McDaniels, Melita (Vavvter) 266
McDonald, Alice (Payne) 356
McDonald, Clarence R 357
McDonald, Elma Pearl 357
McDonald, George E 357
McDonald, Ira William 356
McDonald, Lottie J 357
McDonald, Mamie Catherine 357
McDonald, Myrtie Maud 356
Mclntyre, Ida (\Vest) 355
McKey, Indiana (Glover) 361
McNew, Clara Alice (O'Conner) .182
McNew, Etta N 183
McNew, Norma E 183
McNew, Oscar 183
McNew, Wilber E 183
McNew, Zuma F 183
McKnight, Mrs 187
Mays, John Ann (Clark) 223
Maynor, Tommie E. (Tutt) 293
Mead, Carl Owen 287
Mead, Elsie May 287
Mead. Harriet (Vawter) 287
Mead, Jephtha Dudley 287
Mead, Nina Modised 287
Mead, Mina Myrtle 287
Michels, Mary (Vawter) 314
Miller, Clayborn 230
Miller, Elese 230
Miller, Elphia 230
Miller, Gertrude 230
Miller, Indiana R. (Vawter) 134
Miller, Irvin I34
Miller, Jesse 230
Miller, Matthew A 229
Miller, Murvel 230
Miller, Sarah 230
Miller, Sarah (Chaille) 229
Miller, Vance 134
Millican, Jean 239
Millican, Mary 239
Millican, Nadine 239
Millican, Virginia (Marshall) 239
Milliken, Robert (Vawter) 331
Milliken, Rhoda Jamieson 331
Mitchell, Charles 245
Mitchell, Eddie Lee 296
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Mitchell, Henry H 296
Mitchell, Henr>' P 296
Mitchell, Herbert S 296
Mitchell, Ida (Vawter) 245
Mitchell, John Leroy 297
Mitchell, Lorine 296
Mitchell, Marie 296
Mitchell, Marjorie 246
Mitchell, Alinnie Lee 296
IMitchell, Mollie Bell 297
Mitchell, Myrtie May 296
Mitchell, Nannie Aleen 296
Mitchell, Robert A 296
IMitchell, Sallie (Fergason) 222
Mitchell, Uriah C 222
Mitchell. Walter 245
Mitchell, William Allie 296
]\Iitchell, William M 296
Mitchell, V.'illiam T 222
Moncrief, Agnes Wilbur 253
Moncrief, Ann (Vawter) . . . .248, 249
IMoncrief, Annie Evelyn 251
Moncrief, Benjamin J 251
jMoncrief, Caleb 106
Moncrief, Charles E 251
Moncrief, Daisy 251
IMoncrief, Earl 251
IMoncrief, Jennie 106
Moncrief, Jesse 250
Moncrief, Martha (Stott) 106
IMoncrief, Ray 251
IMoncrief, William 251
Moncrief, William Robert 251
Montgomerj-, Alvin 252
Montgomery, Carrie 252
Montgomery, Emma (Ward) 252
Montgomery, Eva 252
Montgomery, Mantie 252
Moody, Annie Gray 304
Moody, Annie Gray (James) 303
Moody, Daniel C ,304
IMoody, James S 303
Moody, Mollie (Smith) 303
Moody, Mollie C 304
Moodey, Ira 'SI 132
Moodey, Mabel 132
IMoodey, Maud (Vawter) 132
Moodey, Sivlia V 132
IMoodey, Velma E 132
Moore, Mary (Vawter) 124
Morgan, Jane (Chaille) 235
Morrisett, Allie (Bamett) 228
Morrisett, Alma 228
Morrisett, Gladvs Marguerite 228
Morrisett. Virgil 228
IMosley, Frances (Vawter) 266
Mosley, Annie 266
Mullen, Aureana (Truesdell) 328
Mullen, Herbert Orin 328
Mullen, John Shea 328
Mullen, Louise 328
Mullen, Maud M 328
Mullis, Sarah (Heflin) 250
Neblett, Edna 222
Neblett, J. M 222
Neblett, Mary 222
Neblett, Nannie Lillian 222
Neel, Eva (Branham) 185
Neel, Inez 185
Negley, Bertie (Sanford) 227
I\ egley, Carl 227
Negley, Mai 227
Nelson, Rade (Marsh) 197
Netherland, John Ray 316
Netherland, Harriet Virginia 317
Netherland, Josephine 317
Newell, Florence (Glover) 361
Newland, George Ballard 102
Newland, James Edwin 102
Newland, Jesse Guy 102
Newland, Mary (Bums) lOi
Newland, Ralph Guy 102
Newland, Robert Nelson 102
Newman, Harold Anson 286
Newman, Sarah (Vawter) 286
Nichols. Adaline (Vawter) 319
Noble, Louisa (Vawter) 369
Noble, John Vawter 369
Noble, Julian Bennett .369
Norris, Carrie (Vawter) 244
Norris, Frederick De Witt 244
Norris, Helen Louise 244
Norris, Mabel Vawter 244
Norris, Philip Endicott 244
Obenshain, Carrie 71
Obenshain, Frank Allan 71
Obenshain, John W 71
Obenshain, Mary (Vawter) 70
Obenshain, Smith 71
O'Conner, Chester C 183
O'Conner, Elizabeth (Branham) .. 182
O'Conner, Florence Jane 183
O'Conner, Hickman D 183
O'Conner, Jesse Branham 182
O'Conner, Lenora Etha 182
O'Conner, Oral Ami 182
O'Conner, Orlando Parks 182
O'Conner, Solon B 182
O'Conner, Wilber S 183
O'Conner, William A 183
Ogden, Mary (Catching) 347
Osrden, Viola Lucreta 347
Oliver, Adolphus 294
Oliver. Henry 294
Oliver, Ira 204
Oliver, Mabel 204
Oliver, Mary (Holmes) 204
Oliver, Wendell 294
Orr, Lettie (Marsh) I97
Owen, Louise 2.30
428
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Owen, Maud (Chaille) 230
Palmer, Helen (Wise) 239
Palmer, Judson M 227
Palmer, Laura 240
Palmer, May 240
Palmer, Sadie Hester 227
Palmer, Samuel E., Jr 239
Palmer, Smith 240
Palmer, Thomas 239
Palmer, William D 240
Palmore, Earl 378
Palm.ore, Julia ( Vawter) 378
Palmore, Kate 378
Palmore, Mae 378
Palmore, Trueman 378
Parker, Cyril Rodney 107
Parker. Grace ( Stott ) 107
Patzold, Ida (Bums) loi
Payne, Amy May 357
Payne, Catherine (West) 356
Payne, Edward Melton 357
Payne, Eva Lena 357
Payne, Frank J 357
Payne, Goldie F 357
Payne, Mary Catherine 357
Peck, Clara Virginia (Vawter) . . .384
Pence, Clara (Vawter) 55
Pence, LaFayette (Vawter) 55
Perrigo, Bertha Winifred 116
Perrigo, Floyd 116
Perrigo. Sarah (Vanosdol) 116
Perry, Amy (Vawter) 283
Perry, Junia 283
Perry. Wayland 283
Perkinson, Goldie (Vawter) 318
Perkinson, Pauline 318
Philliber, Clara B 132
Philliber, Ira Grace 132
Philliber, Margaret (Vawter) 131
Philliber, Mary E 132
Philliber, Oral Floyd 132
Philliber, Orville L 132
Philliber, Otto 132
Philliber, Perry H 132
Philliber, Raymond L 132
Pickard, Anna Fern 308
Pickard, Grace Myrtle 308
Pickard, Sina (Gatlin) 308
Pickett, Addie Belle (Branham).. 185
Pickett. Glenn 185
Pickett, Hazel 185
Pickett, Mattie (Branham) 185
Pierce, Elinor Shirley 307
Pierce, Marian 307
Pierce, Myrtle (Carrell) 306
Plant, Kathleen 228
Plant, Ralph Barnett .228
Plant, Rex Malcomb 228
Plant, Stella (Barnett) 228
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Pool, Clara ( Clarkson ) 129
Porter, Charles 206
Porter, Cynthia (Cobb) 205, 206
Porter, Edward 206
Porter, Marion 206
Porth, Elma May (Crawford).. . .344
Forth, Wilma 344
Pritchard, Harry Lee 298
Pritchard. Lula (Holmes) 298
Pritchard, William R 298
Ratcliffe, Emma (Vawter) 374
Rea, Kennedy F 196
Rea, Sarah (Foster) 196
Read, Achilles 247
Read, Alice 58
Read, Bert 58
Read, Catherine (Vawter) 246
Read, Clark B 247
Read, Edgar F 247
Read, Fabricius 246
Read, James H 247
Read, Joseph S 247
Read, Marcellus 247
Read, Mattie 247
Read, Pleasant 247
Read, Samuel 247
Read, Sarah (Vawter) 57
Read, Smith H 58
Read, William 247
Reamer, Roscoe 58
Reamer, Virginia K 58
Reamer, Virginia (Read) 57
Redden, Annie (Holmes) 298
Redden, Freeman 298
Redden, Jessie 298
Reeves, Nancy (Fergason) 223
Reynolds, Margaret (Vawter) 378, 379
Rice, Allen 290
Rice, Crawford 290
Rice, May (Garden) 290
Rice, OIlie James 290
Rice, Sarah 290
Rice, William Henry 290
Riggs, Albert R 315
Riggs, Ariel 1 316
Rip-fs, Charles Edmund 315
Riggs, Charles Russell 316
Riggs, Edwin T 315
Riggs, Elizabeth Viola May 315
Riggs, Emmett V 316
Riggs, Flora Lee 315
Rii?gs, George A 315
Riggs, George W 315
Riggs, Ida May 315
Riggs, Jane Elizabeth 315
Riggs, John Thomas 315
Riggs, Julia (Vawter) 315
Riggs, Julia Catherine 315
Riggs, Julia L 316
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Kiggs, Richard J 316
Rinehart, Hattie (Dunlap) 345
Ritchie, Arthur 251
Ritchie, Charles 251
Ritchie, Esther 251
Ritchie, Everett 251
Ritchie, Ruth 251
Ritchie, Sarah (Amsden) 251
Roberts, Catherine (Rossen) 251
Robertson, Marj' ( Vawter) 386
Robinson, Alfred Edward 212
Robinson, Anna Julia 212
Robinson, Arthur 283
Robinson, Earl 283
Robinson, Edward Linsfield 212
Robinson, Ellen (Vawter) 283
Robinson, Emma (Brown) 185
Robinson, Emma Nettie 212
Robinson, Frederick Edward 212
Robinson, Leonard 283
Robinson, Mary Anna 212
Robinson, Mary Louisa 212
Robinson, Mary (Branham) 211
Robinson, Mary Rebecca 211
Robinson, Walter Scott 212
Robinson, William Hickman 211
Rodange, Louisa (Branham) iSr
Rodange, Marguerite Louise 181
Rogers, Elizabeth (Wise) 241
Rogers, Jesse 241
Rogers, Matthew 241
Rokobrant, Alice E. (Vawter) .... 165
Rokobrant, George Carl 165
Rokobrant, Myrtle Olive 165
Rossen, Amanda (Stribling) 232
Rossen, John 22,2
Rossen, Julia (Moncrief) 250
Rossen, Richard" 250
Rossman, Arnold J 102
Rossman, Cora Alice 102
Rossman, Elvie Elizabeth 102
Rossman, Eva Grace 102
Rossman, Jennie (Bayley) 102
Rossman, Nellie Viola 102
Routh, Clifford 282
Routh, Evan B 282
Routh, Florence (Vawter) 282
Rowan, Carrie (Vawter) 58
Rowan, Vawter 59
Rutherford, Emma 318
Rutherford, Ernest 318
Rutherford, Harry 318
Rutherford, Howard 318
Rutherford, Katherine 318
Rutherford, Mary (Vawter) 318
Rutherford, Roy 318
Ryan, Emma (Branham) 208
Ryan, Harry 208
Ryan, Robert 208
429
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Sanborn, Emma (Branham) 193
Sanborn, Fred Roi 193
Sanborn, Lsaac Basil 193
Sanborn, Joseph Warren 193
Sanborn, Perita 193
Sanborn, Thor Warren 193
Sanford, Charles Vawter 227
vSanford, Gussie 227
Sanford, Junius Palmer 228
Sanford, Lydia Hester (Stribling) 226
Seaman, Bertha (Waldcn) 186
Settle, Josephine (Vawter) 379
Settle, Margaret Berneice ^y^
Shanklin, Jennie (Vawter) 383
Shaw, Cora (Smith) 60
Shawancy, Julia (Heflin) 250
Sheehan, Annie Agnes 266
Sheehan, Annie (Harris) 265
Sheehan, Eugene Andrew 266
Sheehan, George Curry 266
Sheehan, John Edward 266
Sheehan, Joseph Daniel 265
Sheehan, Mary Elizabeth 265
Sheehan, Martin Thomas 266
Sheets, Elizabeth (Vawter) 160
Sheets, Emma A 160
Sheets, Narcissa F 160
Shelton, Alpha (Vawter) 7
Snelton, Smedley 7
Shepherd, Ethel (Wagner) 129
Shepherd, Ralph 129
Shields, David G 345
Shields, Hattie Lauretta 345
Shields, Lottie (Dunlap) 345
Shig, Amanda (Vaughn) 267
Shig, Katie 267
Shig, Richard 267
Shinold, Alvaretta (Vawter) 134
Shinold, Arthur E 134
Shinold, Matilda A 134
Shoff, Mabel (Fuller) 344
Simpson, Josephine Ellen 286
Simpson, Martha C. (Vawter) . . . .285
Simpson, Vernon Oak 286
Sims, Ada (Smith) 302
Sims, Hugh Graeme 302
Sims, Richard Raymond 302
Sites, Edna (Burns) loi
Smartz, Bessie Ruth 150
Smartz, Everett Marion 150
Smartz, Katie Frances 150
Smartz, Margaret Fay 1 50
Smartz, Mary Elizabeth 150
Smartz, May (Feagler) 149
Smartz, Robert George 150
Smartz, Wilhelmina H 150
Smith, Alfred W 347
Smith, Alma 60
Smith, Anna Rachel 348
430
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Annie (Vawter) 261
Archibald 301
Basil Duke 303
Burnley Duke 302
Catherine (Vawter) 300
Charles S 303
Elliott Minor 303
Elmer 60
Emma 60
George Keland 303
George L 347
George Robert 347
Grayce 188
Ida (Vawter) 376
James Crawford 347
Jennievee 376
Jesse R 347
Jesse Vawter 347
John Allen 347
John H 347
PAGE
John
Julia
L. E.
.302
(Burns) 241
303
Lillian (Vawter) 74
Louisa H 347
Martha Jane (Storey) 60
Mary Catherine 3*^3
Mary (Foster) 188
Mary (Hedges) 327
Mary (Vawter) 56
Mattie Emmett 303
Melita F 261
Milton V 56, 57
Nancy (Vawter) 261
Nannie (Hunter) 239
Nira E 347
Olive L (Vawter) 284
Rachel ( Crawford ) . . . 346-349
Rebecca (Crawford) 346
Richard Ricks 303
Roy 60
Sarah 261
Spottswood G 303
Thomas Allan 74
Thomas Benton 347
Thomas B., Jr 347
Viola C 347
Vivian Minor 3^3
Walter 60
Wanda 301
William Franklin 347
Snell, Olive (Grinstead) 133
Snyder, Blanche (Battey) 308
Snyder, Floyd T 308
Snyder, Waldo A 308
Soward, Gladys 189
Soward, Lucy (Foster) 189
Soward, Ross 189
Soward, Winnie 189
Speare, Mabel (Lattimore) 64
Sprague, Daisy Belle (Read) 58
Spriggs, Riley 250
Spriggs, Scott 250
Staggs, Frances ( Vanosdol) 116
Stahl, Effie (Stout) 287
Stapp, Anna C. (Robinson) 211
Stapp, Ely 9
Stapp, Florence 211
Stapp, Mary 211
Stapp, Milton 9
Stapp, William 211
Starks, Benjamin Earl 301
Starks, Florence Althea 302
Starks, Frank William 301
Starks, James Lee 302
Starks, Mary (Williamson) 301
Starks, Millicent Laverne 302
Starks, Myrtle Lucile 301
Stellhorn, Ethel 185
Stellhom, Jennie (Brown) 185
Stennett, Arta (Lewis) 345
Stennett, Claud Atherton 345
Stennett, Vera Camille 345
Sterrett, Carrie Belle 365
Sterrett, Davie Lewise 365
Sterrett, Etta Roberta 365
Sterrett, Mead Dowel 365
Sterrett, Robert A 365
Sterrett, Sarah J. (Vawter) 364
Stewart, Virginia (Tutt) 292
Stitt, Curte C 224
Stitt, Ford G 224
Stitt, Nellie 224
Stitt, Nellie ( Corbitt ) 224
Stitt, Samuel 224
Storey, Blanche 62
Storey, Charles 61
Storey, Cora V 61
Storey, David 62
Storey, Elizabeth 63
Storey, Emily 61
Storey, Ezra 61
Storey, Frances C 64
Storey, Frank 61
Storey, George W 64
Storey, Guy 63
Storey, James Marshall 62, 63
Storey, Jane (Vawter) 59, 60
Storey, John T 63
Storey, John V 60, 61
Storey, John V. (George W.).... 64
Storey, Mabel Emma 64
Storey, Margaret H 64
Storey, Martha (Wise) 61, 239
Storey, Oscar Sears 63
Storey, Ralph G 64
Storey, Riley Clark 63, 64
Storey, Smith William 61, 62
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Storey, Smith William, Jr 62
Storey, Smith William C George
W.) 64
Storey, Thomas Andrew 64
Storey, Thomas Henry 62
Storey, William David 61
Stott, Cyril H 108
Stott, Elizabeth (Vawter) ...104, 105
Stott. Mary F 108
Stott, Roscoe G 108
Stott, Wilfred T 107
Stott, William T 106, 107
Stott, Vawter 105
Stout, Herbert Oscar 287
Stout, Laura Mabel 287
Stout, Sabrina (Vawter) 287
__Stribling, Annie Russell 228
Stribling, Charles Morehead 228
Stribling, Ernest Gilderoy 229
Stribling, Frederick Slaton 225
Stribling, Harry Leo 225
Stribling, Jesse Vawter 224
Stribling, John 225
Stribling, John Malcomb 225
Stribling, RLiry 226
Stribling, Milton S 232
Stribling, Newton W 232
Stribling, Pleasant 223
Stribling, Sallie Ann 225
Stribling, Sarah (Vawter) ...215-220
Stribling, Silas 233
Stribling, Thomas Tibbett 225
Stribling, Uriah 233
Stribling, William L 229
Stribling, William Morehead 225
Stricklett, Alverda (Truesdell) . . .328
Stricklett, Earl Rea ^^^28
Stricklett, Shubert 328
Sweeny, Sarah J. (Vawter) 384
Swiney, Mary (Hayden) 319
Svmpson, Amanda (Vawter) 378
Svmpson, Electa 378
Sympson, Ingram 378
Sympson, Jenievee 378
Tanksley, Albert 117
Tanksley, Charles W 117
Tanksley, Henry F 117
Tanksley, James M 117
Tanksley, Louisa (Vawter) 117
Tanksley, Minnie 117
Tanksley, Samuel 117
Tanksley. Thomas Oliver 117
Tatom, Barteels 223
Tatom, Cecilia 223
Tatom, Jennie (Neblett) 222
Tatom, Kate Eugene 223
Taylor, Charles 133
Taylor, Deny 133
Taylor, Ella (Grinstead) 133
431
PAGE
Taylor, Frank 133
Taylor, Harold 133
Taylor, Jessie (Sanford) 227
Taylor, Mabel 133
Taylor, Myrtle 133
Taylor, Olive 133
Telford, Leila (Branham ) 208
Thompson, Naomi (Gregg) 262
Thompson, Frank Vawter 262
Thrallkill, Polly (Vawter) 244
Tidd, Edith 240
Tidd, Florence (Wise) 240
Tiffany, Maria (Lewis) 351
Tillotson, Flora E 326
Tillotson, L. B. Arden 326
Tillotson, Minnie (Hedges) 326
Tingle, Elizabeth Vawter 264
Tingle, Harry Giovannoli 264
Tingle, Mary (Giovannoli) 264
Tingle. Leonard G 264
Tompkins, Josephine (Vawter) .. .386
Torbet, Mary (Moncrief) 253
Trick, Emma (Moncrief) 106
Tripp, Frank 203
Tripp, Mary (Webb) 203
Truesdell, Alecy (Vawter) 328
Truesdell, Oleta 329
Truesdell, Quintus Vawter. . .328, 329
Truesdell, Sallie 328
Tullis, Margaret (x\mos) 298
Tullis, Lola B 298
Tutt, Alice 289
Tutt, Annie Hope 289
Tutt, Arthur C 292
Tutt, Benjamin F 292
Tutt, Ben Floyd 289
Tutt, Benjamin Lee 293
Tutt, Birdie May 293
Tutt, Carrie L 292
Tutt, Charles L 288
Tutt. David Vawter 289
Tutt, Eugene Noval 293
Tutt, Frank M 292
Tutt, George D 292
Tutt, George W 288
Tutt, Henry Day 291
Tutt, Henry M 292
Tutt, Horace R 292
Tutt, Ida Bell 293
Tutt, James 289
Tutt, James E 293
Tutt, James Elliott 289
Tutt, James Leonard 289
Tutt, Jephtha 293
Tutt. Jesse 293
Tutt, John If 293
Tutt, John L 292
Tutt, John P 288
Tutt, Lawrence W 289
432
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Tint, Lena S 292
Tutt, Mamie A 292
Tutt, Meredith D 292
Tutt, Myra 289
Tutt, Oscar Elliott 293
Tutt, Otis Floyd 292
Tutt, Robert L 293
Tutt, Sabrina (Vawter) 288
Tutt, Thomas 293
Tutt, Wyatt 293
Umensetter, Arietta (Lewis) 351
LTmensetter, Charles H 351
L^mensetter, Clara R 351
Umensetter, Edith A 351
Vandergrift, Cora (West) 358
Vandergrift, Esther 358
Vandergrift, Ethel 358
Van Horn, Ada (Grinstead) 133
Vanosdol, Cora Lee 117
Vanosdol, Isaac Morton 117
Vanosdol, James Monroe 116
Vanosdol. Katherine (Vawter) . . .
115, 116
Vanosdol, Lulu Ludica 117
Vanosdol, Scott 116
Vanosdol, William Weaver 117
Van Trees, Mary (Branham) 214
Varian, Emma (Vawter) 314
Varian, George William 314
Varian, Jessie Cornelia 314
Vater, Agnes Eugenie 123
Vater, Aramantha (Vawter) 122
Vater, Thomas Eugene 123
Vater, Williamson Dunn 123
Vaughn, Amanda (Vawter) 267
Vaughn, Allen K 267
Vaughn, Beulah ( Webb) 203
Vaughn, Eugene Morris 203
Vaughn, George W 267
Vaughn, Jesse 203
Vaughn, Joseph Webb 203
Vaughn, Lesley Ellsworth 267
Vaughn, Manles E 267
Vaughn, Metta L 267
Vaughn, Ollie M 267
Vaughn, Raymond 267
Vaughn, Roger F 267
Vaughn, Sarah Agnes 203
Vaughn, Stanley Edison 267
Vaughn, Richard Vawter 267
Vaughn, William Russell 203
Vaught, Leila 203
Vaught, Ruth (Webb) 203
Vickers, Gladys Lee 368
Vickers, John Francis 368
Vickers, Lucy Octavia 368
Vickers, Mary Elizabeth 368
Vickers, Mary L. (Vawter) 368
Vickers, Thomas Edwin 368
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Vickers, William Ernest 368
Victory, Ella Octavia (Vawter) . .369
Waggoner, Charles 295
Waggoner, Harold Coke 225
Waggoner, Olivia (Holmes) 295
Waggoner, Jessie Aline 225
Waggoner, Mary E 295
Waggoner, INIattie (Stribling) . . . .225
Wagner, Elizabeth (Branham).. .. 193
Wagner, Jesse R 129
Wagner, Margaret (Vawter) 129
Wagner, Mary Elizabeth 193
Walden, Ada 186
Walden, Alice 186
Walden, Bonnie 186
Walden, Carl 186
Walden, Charles F 186
Walden, Clarence 186
Walden, Dorothy 186
Walden, Ezra F 186
Walden, Frances (Branham) 186
Walden, Harry 186
Walden, Homer 186
Walden, James Richey 186
Walden, John 186
Walden, Leslie 186
Walden, Lillian 186
Walden, Mauree 186
Walden, Noble 186
Walden, Orion Noble 187
Walden, Otis Morton 187
Walden, Susie 1S6
Walden, Uriah Branham 186
Walden, William 186
Walden, William Orval 186
Walker, Albert Dudley 297
Walker, Nancy Katherine
(Holmes) 297
Waltmire, Ernest Everett 285
Waltmire, Otis Vernon 285
Ward, Charles 252
Ward, Charles E 252
Ward, Everett 252
Ward, John 252
Ward, Josephine E 253
Ward, Katherine A 253
Ward, Mary Ferris 253
Ward, Raymond L 253
Ward, Sarah (Moncrief ) 252
Warren, Annie Gertrude 232
Warren, Chris. Duncan 232
Warren, David L 226
Warren, Ella 226
Warren, Ethel 225
Warren, Guy M 226
Warren, Henry E 226
Warren, Joanna (Chaille) 231
Warren, John Edward 231
Warren, John L 226
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Warren, Lula (Malcomb)
Warren, Mary Addie
Warren, Max H
Warren, Myrtle
Warren, Newton Homer
Warren, Paul Frederick
Warren, Wyly Brown
Waters, Annie L. (Branham)
Waters, Arley
Waters, Dunward
Waters, Virgil
Watson, Azilee (Garden)
Watson, Etwell
Watson, George
Watson, Sallie May
Watson, Vernon
Waugh, Henry
Webb, Arthur
Webb, Benjamin
Webb, Edwin P
Webb, Howard
Webb, Ida M
Webb, Julia (Branham)
Vs'ebb, Jesse
Webb, Jesse Lamar
Webb, Levon B
Webb, Mary B
Webb, Mary E
Webb, Nelle
Webb, Rov H
Webb. Wilbur Hilton
Webb, William
Webb, Winifred E
Welch, Gharles V
Welch, Glarence V
Welch, Frank J
Welch, Grace B
Welch, Margaret L. ( Vawter) . . . ,
Welch, Margaret R
Welch, Mary E
Welch, Nellie F
Welch, Robert G
Welch, Sarah Belle (Vawter)
Welch, William O
West, Ann (Glover)
West, Aramantha (Vawter)
West, C. Mabel
West, Charles H
West, Charles J
West, Charles W. (James)
West, Charles W. (William)
West, David C
West, Eldo R
West, Elizabeth
West, Elizabeth (Blair) 330,
West, Ella
West, Elma A
West, Emma L
West, Ira
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West, James ..
West, Jesse M.
West,
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J. Judson
J. Silas
John
Lillian Rose
West, Margaret Marie
West, Mary Jessamine
West, Milton S
West, Minnie
West, Myron E
West, Samuel
West, Samuel W
West. Sarah Ethel
West, Sarah (Glover)
West, Silas W
West, Stephen A
West, Susie
West, Sylvia
West, Thomas H
West, William H. (J. Judson).
West, William
West, William
H.
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Whitcomb, Emma (Clarkson).
White, Bessie
White, Martha (Vawter)
White, Mattie (Malcomb)
White, Robert (Malcomb)
Whitson, Maggie (Burns)....
Whittemore, Arthur Monroe. .
Whittemore, Mary (Gullet).
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Icox, Mattie (Vanosdol) . . . .
Icox, William Gilbert
Ihite, Anne
Ihite, Elliott
Ihite, Ely
Ihite, Melinda
ite, Nancy
ams, Almira Corinne
ams, Emma (Vawter) . . . .
ams, Fannie (Holsclaw)..
ams, Helene
ams, Lois Mildred
ams, Mary Louesa
ams, Maud
ams, Maud (Branham)...
ams, Theodosia (Vawter).
ams, Virgil Elvin
amson. Althea
amson, Althea Grey
amson, Althea Lee
am.son, Dorothy E
amson, Frederick B
amson, James W
amson, Leander A
lliamson, Martha TSmith) . .
lliamson, Ruth Artensia
Ison, Bertha
I'AGE
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INDEX
PAGE
PAGE
Wilson, Cristel 183
Wilson, Leslie C 183
Wilson, Mabel 183
Wilson, Nora (O'Conner) 183
Wilson, Omer 183
Wise, Copeland 238
Wise, Edgar D 239
Wise, Julia ( Vawter) 2^"]. 238
Wise, Mack B 240
Wise, Prudence 241
Wise, Virginia 240
Wright, Nellie (West) I35
Wright, Opal I35
Wright, Robert W 135
Wolf, Artemecia (Stribling) 235
Wolf, Harry E 236
Wolf, Ida (Branham) 208
Wolf, Martha E 236
Wolf, Nancy Hester 236
Wolf, Sarah Frances 235
Wolf, Thomas Elmer 236
Wolf, Walter M 236
Wolfert, Emily (Campbell) 66
Wood, Carrie (Fesler) 71
Wood, Harold H 72
Wood, Mary Cynisea 207
Wood, Nannie (Branham) 207
Wood, Ruth (Obenshain) ■/2
Wood, Virginia Branham 207
Wooden, Arthur E 235
Wooden, Elizabeth (Wolf) 235
Wooden, Fannie B 235
Wooden, Minnie O 235
Wooden, Perry M 235
Wooden, Walter B 235
Wooden, William D 235
Yeager, Cora ( Vawter) 74
Young, Chatie Luciel 222
Young, Ellie (Sanford) 227
Young, Elizabeth (Vawter) 383
Young, J^va 222
Young, Mary Lee 222
Yonng, Myrtle 222
Young, Nannie C. (Neblett) 222
RELATED TO THE VAWTER
FAMILY BY MARRIAGE
PAGE
Ackman, George 267 Bramwell
Adams, Wayland 294 Bramwell
Adams, Sylvester 360 Bramwell
Allen, Alice (Bratton) 305 Bramwell
Allen, Bertha (Harvey) 306 Bramwell
Allen, George V 305 Branham,
Allen, Mae Alarian (Crafts) 306 Branham,
Allen, Margarette (Caldwell) ....305 Branham,
Allen, Zella (Newton) 306 Branham,
Amback, Charles A 307 Branham,
Amos, Clara (Gallaher) 299 Branham,
Amos, James T 298 Branham,
Amsden, Caleb 251 Branham,
Amsden, Ida (Thompson) 251 Branham,
Amsden, Josephine ( ) 252 Branham,
Amsden, Sophie (Dean) 252 Branham,
Anderson, Joseph F 225 Branham,
-Anderson, W. T 227 Branham,
Atherton, Lewis G 342 Branham,
Atwood, Gordon B 193 Branham,
Atwood, James K 187 Branham,
Bain, Mandeville 188 Branham,
Baker, George B 66 Branham,
Baldwin, George 196 Branham,
Balzer, George W 1 16 Branham,
Banta, George 56 Branham,
Barker, W. A 298 Branham,
Barnes, Myron E 300 Branham,
Barnett, Mary (Thompson) 228 Branham,
Bamett, Virgil A 228 Branham,
Battey, Dwight R 308 Branham,
Baxter, Charles 376 Branham,
Baxter, Thomas 354 Branham,
Bayley, Clara Summers 102 Branham,
Bayley, Henry 102 Branham,
Baylev, Melinda (Lamson) 102 Branham,
Beacham, Braxton 263 Branham,
Beechly, 57 Branham,
Beeman, Oscar 139 Branham,
Bell, Seaborn 364 Branham,
Benefiel, William 162 Branham,
Bickford, George 194 Branham,
Bicknell, Ernest P 147, 148 Branham,
Binkley, Jesse 291 Branham,
Blair, Thomas 330 Branham,
Boeckley, Henry W 115 Branham,
Bohall, Everett R 186 Branham,
Bowman, M. J 221 Branham,
Bowling, Corwin 359 Branham,
PAGE
, Adelia (Francisco) ...213
, Lillian (Farnsworth) .213
, Lillie (Robinson) 213
, Mary (Reilly) 213
Solon C 212
Adaline (Nichols) 206
Alcey (Davis) 181
Caroline (Bateman) . . . .192
Cynthia (Watson) 204
Daisy (Lee) 209
Dicy Green 194
Lienor (Wilton) 192
Elizabeth (Brumit) 184
Emma (Friedersdorf)..207
Eveline (Adams) 195
Frances Watson 210
Ida Belle ( Cooper) 184
Ida (Newsome) 208
Ira E. (Downey) 184
Jessie ( Bruce ) 185
Jessie (Greenleaf) 180
Jessie (Ryker) 209
John 178
Julia (McDowell) 179
Kate (Bromley) 192
Kate (Faulkner) 180
Kate (Owens) 210
Leiitia (Kidd) 204
Linsfield 201
Livia Jane ( Stow ) 208
Lotta (Hunter) 206
Louisa (Hutchins) 210
Louisiana (Compton).. . 183
Margaret (Comer) 193
Martha (La Masters) . . .179
Mary (Butler) 178, 179
Mary (Davis) I79
^Lary (Gilbert) 193
Mary (Kareger) 179
Mary (Stapp) 9
Mary (Stark) 180
Mary Wilson I93
May (Galvin) 181
Melinda (Watson) 207
Nancy (Stapp) 9
Nancy ( Owens ) 194
Nettie (Hand) 181
Nettie (Springer) 208
Priscilla (0'Laughley)..2i4
436
INDEX
PAGE
Branham, Rose (Strother) 195
Branham, Sarah (Huckleberry).. . 182
Branham, Susan (Halbert) 195
Branham, Vera ( Miller) 193
Briggs, Robert J 380
Brooks, John 183
Brooks, Joseph 116
Brougher, A. L 197
Brown, Araminta (McElroy) 185
Brown, Hiram 325
Brown, Rose (Walrick) 185
Brown, Samuel 185
Brown, William Henry 131
Burckhardt, John G 115
Burckhardt, Minnie (Baker) 115
Burns, Mary C. (Smydth) 99
Burns, Eudora ( Danf orth ) 100
Burns, Georgia Minnick 99
Burns, Julia (Tomlinson) 99
Burns, Maxa 96, 97
Bums, Mary (Coleman) 99
Burns, Nancy (Smith) 98
Bums. Sarah (Black) 98
Bums, Taulman 241
Burns, William R 181
Calloway, Thomas 210
Campbell, Allan 65
Campbell, Carolyn (Otterman).. . . 66
Campbell. Carrie (Davis) 65
Campbell, Granville P 189
Campbell, Janice (Findus) 66
Campbell, Margaret (Coan) 65
Garden, Mary (Hawkins) 291
Garden, Netta (Binkley) 290
Garden, Rebecca (Guthrie) 290
Garden, Sallie (Brown) 291
Garden, William Henry 289
Carey, Charles H 134
Carnegie. 252
Carney, T. B 358
Carrell, George W 306
Carson, Edwin 139
Catching, James 347
Ghafifin, 240
Chaille, Alice ( Neal ) 234
Chaille, Carrie (Christman) 231
Chaille, Ella (Lambertson) 234
Chaille, F. A. (Posey) 230
Chaille, James N 233
Chaille, Josiah 229
Chaille, L. J. (Dickson) 230
Chaille, Minnie (Hall) 231
Chaille, Mollie (Absher) 234
Chaille, Susan (Tate) 230
Ghilders, 232
Church, ^42
Clark, John E 223
Clark, J. D 303
Clarkson, Thom.as 129
PAGE
Cobb, Edith (Fedder) 206
Cobb, Minnie (Beeker) 206
Cobb, Minnie (Cotton) 206
Cobb. Samuel 205
Coffey, Byron H 195
Cole, 318
Coleman, Catherine (Cross) 309
Coleman, James 354
Coleman, John A 309
Conger, Elias 351
Conger, Quint 290
Conover, William 344
Cook, Lorenzo Dow 383
Cook, O. A 189
Cook, Peyton Lacy 379
Cooke, J. W 369
Gorbitt, Ada (Plant) 224
Gorbitt, Allen T 223
Gorbitt, Bessie (Plant) 224
Gorbitt, R. M 229
Gorbitt, Rena (McCreary) 224
Cornelius, Henry 196
Costigan, Frank 210
Covert, John M 193
Crane, Archer H 211
Crawford. Alice (Adams) 343
Crawford, Anna Mills 343
Crawford, Cora (Spencer) 342
Crawford, Elizabeth (Dunlap).. . .342
Crawford, Elizabeth (Finley) 341
Crawford, Jam_es Maxwell 338
Crawford, Letitia (Smith) 338
Crawford, Margaret (Gartwright) 343
Crawford, Mary (Cowgill) 346
Crawford, Mary J. (Waymire) . ...343
Gronkhite, Lee 325
Grum, Irvin R 134
Gull. Harry 318
Curtis, James 231
Daniels, B. F 263
Daly. 194
Davis, Daniel 190
De Garmo, Everett 310
Denger, Albert 326
Deupree, John W 170
Dickson, A. W 230
Dixon, Joe Curtis 210
Dixon, Lincoln 61
Donlon. Thomas 301
Doubt, Jefferson 277
Doughty, Charles A 317
Draper, Winfield S 334
Duncan, W. A 224
Dunlap, Graciel (Tabler) ^aa
Dunlap, M. A 344
Dunning, Richard 70
Eads, John 319
Edwards, Alice (Epps) 221
Edwards, James 220, 221
INDEX
437
PAGE
Edwards, MoUie (Dickson) 221
Edwards, Zerelda (Malcomb) 221
Eichelburger, James W 267
Elder, J. P 366
Enix, Joseph B 326
Evans, • 239
Everson, Jesse 185
Farnier, William 384
Feagler, Helen (Gardener) 149
Feagler, Mary (King) 148
Feagler, Ormand 148
Felts. Exie 302
Fenton, Edwin 343
Fergason, Nathaniel 221
Fesler, Joseph L 71
Fesler, Lula (Coleman) 71
Fink, Edward 369
Firebaugh, C. E 325
Fisher, Herbert 334
Fitzhugh, H. T 307
Fitzhugh, Hattie (South) 308
Fleming, William 183
Ford, John W 292
Forester, Stephen 223
Foster, Annie (Powell) 189
Foster. Isabelle (Green) 188
Foster, Jared 187, 188, 196
Foster, Sadie (Brock) 188
Fowlkes, R. E 226
Fox, 361
Freeman, William W 297
Fruit, Ellen (Grossman) 278
Fruit, Jefferson 277
Fruit, Jessie (Morrison) 277
Fruit, Sallie (Mocroft) 2^]^
Fuller, V. R 344
Gatlin, James 304
Gatlin, Mattie Dunn 309
George, Frank B 309
Gibbens. Morton R 309
Gill, J. S 327
Gillan, James 284
Gillan, William 284
Giltner, George 355
Giovannoli, Andrea 263, 264
Giovannoli, Carrie (Kinnaird) . . . .264
Gish, George 289
Glover, James 354
Glover; (Tucker) 361
Glover, Mary E. (Hunter) 361
Glover, Melita (Barnett) 361
Glover, 320
Good, Leslie 187
Goodson, Spencer M 278
Gordon, Joseph 179
Gordon, R. A 374
Graham, Joseph 300
Gray, J. M 232
Gray, Joseph W 135
PAGE
Greer, J. J 298
Gregg, George 262
Griffith, J. C 314
Grindell, Wilbur 180
Grinstead, Dana ( Norris ) 133
Grinstead, Lewis P 351
Grinstead, Thomas F 133
Gullet, Grace ( Sherman ) 180
Gullet, Josephine (Campbell) 180
Gullet, Monroe 180
Hagan, James 378
Hall, Charles E 360
Ham, Charles 197
Hardin, Benjamin G 378
Hardy, James 164
Harold, Alfonso R 334
Harper, Robert L 231
Harris, Edward 262
Harris, Mary (Harris) 263
Harris, William H 331
Harrison, George L 227
Harwood, S. S 121
Hawley, Augustus 278
Hayden, 319
Heath, Bowen C 130
Hedges, Effie (Saunders) 327
Hedges, Ida (Heloy) 325
Hedges, Levi M 326
Hedges, Mamie (Wills) 328
Hedges, Mary (Atkinson) 325
Hedges, Mary Mildred (Wear).. ..327
Hedges, Peter T 324
Hedges, Vietta (Kingham) 2,2']
Heflin, Morgan 250
Henson, Samuel 290
Hilton, John W 71
Hinchman, Henry 253
Hinman, Charles Walter 284
Hinman, Mary (Leonard) 285
Hobart, C. L 203
Hobson, John W .300
Hockmuth, C. H i33
Hodge, 292
Holland, Edward 262
Holland, Emma (Rogers) 263
Holland, L. C 2(i:^
Holmes, John W 293
Holmes, Josephine (Freeman) ... .297
Holmes, Laura (Hopkins) 295
Holmes, Laura (Jones) 295
Holmes, Margaret (Alexander) .. .295
Holmes, Mary (Brann) 294
Holmes, Mary (Pitman) 295
Holmes, Mrs. Puryear 295
Holmes, Nancy (Jones) 294
Holmes, Tassie (Moore) 295
Holsclaw, Mattie (Deer) 13O
Holsclaw, William 138
Holsclaw, Zclla (Wagner) 139
438
INDEX
PAGE
Holton, H. L 130
Hunter, Charles E 240
Hunter, James R 278
Hunter, W. T 239
Hutsell, Allen B 357
Irwin, Charles 332
Isaacs, Abram 277
Jackson, T. L 222
Jackson, W. Stirling 228
Jenkins, John 57
Jenkins, William A 186
Johnson, Richard 332
Johnson, Samuel 253
Jones, A. C 189
Jones, Ansley F 188
Jones, Charles A 342
Jones, G. W 365
Jones, J. West 306
Joyce, Maurice 331
Kanofif, Jacob N 305
Kendall. Harry A 265
Kenny, Fred G 108
Kerr, George S 169
Kerr, Moses 383
Kessick. William 241
Kimball, James W 343
King, Caroline ( Vandever) 140
King, Edward 246
King, George 137, 138
King, J. F 356
King, Minnie (Tate) 140
King. Robert 149
Kincart, 250
Kingsley, Frederick 240
Kirk, John F 290
Kittle, Richard D 254
Kyle. James 246
Laswell. Corydon 135
Larkins, Thomas 63
Lattimore. Daniel 64
Leavitt, Ward 120
Lee, Howard 170
Lewis, Alexander 350
Lewis, Ann (Grinstead) 350
Lewis, Charlotte (Parks) 351
Lewis, Effie (Buchanan) 351
Lewis, Francisco 365
Lewis, Timothy A 345
Little, H. M 344
Long, George S 212
Loomis, George B 104
Lukenbill, Sherman 247
Luther. Frank 296
Malcomb. Ethel (Fowlkes) 226
Malcomb, Flora Elton 226
Malcomb, John 225
Malcomb, Mattie (Plant) 226
Marsh, Lucebra W 197
Marshall, Edward 364
PAGE
Marshall, Frank 187
Marshall, Orrin 238
Martin, John E 240
Maynor, Walter E 293
Mays, W. W 223
McAllister, Jack 297
McCann, James 366
McCauley, Edward 202
McCauley, William H 225
McColley, W. G 187
McColm, W. Jesse 285
• McDaniels, Sanford 266
McDonald, William E 356
Mclntyre, 355
McKey, 361
McNew. Benjamin 182
Mead. Lewis A 287
Michels, 314
Miller, Henry 229
Miller. Nora (Brown) 229, 230
Miller, Moses M 134
Millican, B. T 239
Milliken, William A 331
A'litchell, F. F 222
Mitchell, Mattie (Anderson) 296
Mitchell, Lucille (Wheat) 296
Mitchell, Sarah (Anderson) 296
Mitchell, William M 295, 296
Mitchell, Willis 245
Moncrief, Abner 249
Moncrief, Cvnthia (Montgomery). 251
Moncrief, Maxa 106
Moncrief, Rebecca (Wilson) 251
Montgomery, Ira 252
Moody, R. H 303
Moody, Edna (Russel) 303
Moodey, William F 132
Moore, Albert W 210
Moore, John R 124
Morgan, James 235
Morrisett, G. C 228
Mosley, Joseph 266
Mullen, John 328
Mullis, 250
Neblett, Bettie (Oliver) 222
Neblett, George 222
Neblett. Mattie (Mabry) 222
Neel, Henry D 185
Negley, Charles F 227
Nelson, 197
Netherland, John A 316
Newell, 361
Newland, Dallas loi
Newland, Elsie (Cox) 102
Newman, F. A 286
Nichols, William 319
Noble, J. B 369
Norris. James C 244
Obenshain, Berda (Ream) 71
INDEX
439
PAGE
Obenshain, George 70
O'Conner, Elsie (Davis) 182
O'Conner, Florence 182
Ogdcn, Edward F 347
Oliver, William L 294
Orr, 197
Owen, Robert 230
Palmer, Junius M 227
Palmer, Samuel E 239
Palmore, Ansel F 378
Parker, Clark R 107
Patzold. Oswald loi
Payne, Jacob J 356
Payne, Maggie (Palmer) 357
Peck, Lewis 384
Pence, LaFayette 55
Perkinson, Otis ? 18
Perrigo, W. R 116
Perry, Parker 283
Philliber, William F 131
Pickard, Aaron 308
Pickett, David N 185
Pickett, Samuel H 185
Pierce, John C 307
Plant, Charles G 228
Pool, William 129
Forth, William E 344
Porter, E. D 206
Pritchard, W. J 298
Ratcliffe, 374
Rea, Davidson 196
Read, Alice (Richcreek) 58
Read, Mabel (Adams) 58
Read, Elijah 57
Read, Eliza (Veasey) 247
Read, Hiram 246
Read, Lottie ( Doutch ) 247
Read, Sallie (Anderson) 247
Reamer, William S 57
Redden, Samuel 298
Reeves, Thomas B 223
Reynolds, W. A 379
Rice, Watson 290
Riggs, Catherine (Russell) 316
Riggs, Elizabeth (Walhouser) . . . .315
Riggs, Mary (Haberstich) 315
Riggs, Thomas 315
Rinehart, Fred D 345
Ritchie, Walter 251
Roberts, 251
Robertson, Harrison 386
Robinson, Edward J 21 r
Robinson, Joseph 283
Robinson, Waldo 185
Rodange, Peter 181
Rogers, Ephraim 241
Rnkobrant, Theodore H 165
Rossen, John 232
Rossen, 250
PAGE
Rossman, Jesse L 102
Routh, William 282
Rowan, George 59
Rutherford, Emma (King) 318
Rutherford, Harvey 318
Ryan, James R 208
Safely, Charles T 347
Sanborn, Joseph^ W 193
Sanford, John O 227
Seaman. 186
Settle, O. L 379
Shanklin, Andrew 383
Shaw, 60
Shawancy, 250
Sheets, Charles 160
"Sheehan, Daniel 265
Shepherd. Martin A 129
Shields, John A 345
Shig,
267
Shinold, John A 134
Shoff, Park S 344
Simpson, Richard J 285, 286
Sims, W^illiam H 302
Sites, William M loi
Smartz, McArthur 149
Smith, Alice (Lane) 303
Smith, Amelia (Whitten) 347
Smith, Beulah (Grant) 303
Smith, C. L 188
Smith, Catherine (Oaks) 302
Smith, Charles E 327
Smith, Clarence 284
Smith, Emma (Thomas) 348
Smith, Eugene 376
Smith, Isaac N 56, 57
Smith, J. L 60
Smith, James 261
Smith, John 261
Smith, Minnie (Martin) 347
Smith. Mollie (McLaughlin) 302
Smith, Nellie (Whitten) 347
Smith, Peter 346
Smith, Snottswood K 300
Smith, Thomas LaFayette 74
Snell, J. W 133
Snyder, Virgil L 308
Soward, Alfred 189
Speare, Willis Bradley 64
Sprague, Perley J 58
Spriggs, 250
Stas^^s. Albert C 116
Stahi, Lewis G 287
Stapp, Achilles 9
StaDp, Hamilton 211
Starks, William H 301
Stellhorn, George 185
Stennett, Wilson B 345
Sterrett, M, D 364
Sterrett, Etta (Davis) 365
440
INDEX
PAGE
PAGE
Stewart, William 292
Stitt, A. C 224
Storey, Addie Moore 61
Storey, Alice (Stonebrook) 64
Storey, Hepsie (Johnson) 64
Storey, Lena (Carlisle) 62
Storey, Lucia (Barnum) 63
Storey, Mary (Storey) 60
Storey, Meta (Mella) 63
Storey, Parnie O. (Hamilton).... 64
Storey, Rose (Shaefer) 63
Storey, Titia ( Sharp) 62
Storey, Thomas J 59, 60
Stott, Arabella R. (Tracey) . .106, 107
Stott, John 105
Stout, Katherine (Roberts) 287
Stout, M. Franklin 287
Stribling, Elizabeth (Taulman) . . .232
Stribling, Emma (Stephens) 225
Stribling, Hester (Cobb) 233
Stribling, Nancy (Moncrief) 232
Stribling. Sallie Box 225
Stribling, Sarah (Keith) 233
Stribling, Sarah (Taulman) 229
Stribling, Susan (Jackson) 228
Stribling, Susan (Yarbrough) 224
Stribling, Thomas 220
Stribling, Zerelda (Dahoney) 223
Stricklett, Robert 328
Sweeny, Frank P 384
Swiney, William 319
Sympson, Joseph M 378
Tanksley, Christena (Wesaw) 117
Tanksley, Thomas 117
Tatom, Eugene S 222
Taylor, A. J I33
Taylor, Edgar 227
Telford, W. E... 208
Thompson, Martin 262
Tidd, E. B 240
Tiffany, C. S 35i
Tillotson, Bertie '26
Tingle, Leonard 264
Tompkins, Stonewall 386
Torbet, Robert 253
Trick, Robert D 106
Tripp, Jasper 203
Truesdell, Flora (Ferris) 329
-Truesdell, Jesse L 328
Tullis, W. P 298
Tutt, Emily (West) 289
Tutt, Florence (West) 289
Tutt, Lewis 288
Tutt, Lockey (Gambreal) 293
Tutt, Margaret (Powell) 289
Tutt, Mariah (Donley) 288
Tutt, Mary 'Duke) 288
Tutt, Mary (Wood; 291
Tutt, (Farmer) 292
Tutt, Virginia (Wood) 292
Umensetter, W. R 351
Vandergrift. G. W 358
Van Horn, T. F 133
Vanosdol, Elizabeth (Gibbs) 116
Vanosdol, George 116
Vanosdol, Mollie (Pence) 116
Van Trees, 214
Varian, George H 314
Vater, Grace (Barker) 123
Vater, Septimius 122, 123
Vaughn, Elizabeth (Robertson).. ..267
Vaughn
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Vawter
Vawter
Vawter
Vawter
Vawter
Vawter
Vawter,
Vawter
Vawter,
Vawter
Vawter
Vawter
Vawter
Vawter
Vawter
George W 267
Hannah (Kipfer) 267
Luther F 203
Augustus 203
Ada (Wilson) 284
Adah (Vivian) 317
Adaline (Dunlap) 384
Alice (Campbell) 69
Alice (Hadley) 145
Alma (Dixon) 318
Almeida (Rollins) 168
Ann (Hickinson) 313
Anna (Gray) 276
Anne (Ballard) 382
Anne (Shepherd) 246
Annie (Brigham) 283
Annie (Hawthorn) 335
Annie (LeGill) 171
Angeline (Brace) 162
Angeline (Cheever) 130
Armilda Hollister 169
Barbara (Kroher) iii
Bedie (Dewbre) 377
Bessie (Channel) 127
Caroline (McGill) 319
Carrie (Timmons) 69
Catherine (Gunnerman).. 112
Catherine (Hickey) 72
Charlotte ( Vogler) 374
Charlotte (Hobart).. 142, 144
Charlotte (Knowlton).. . .120
Clara (Peck) 384
Clara (Miller) 146, 147
Clara (Monroe) 160
Claudine (Fowler) 376
Cora (Kiser) 326
Daisy (Tolle) 118
Delia (Morrison) 329
Diana (Moncrief) 163
Edith (Henning) 283
Ella (Brown) 70
Elenor (Floyd) 277
Eliza (Goodhue) 246
Eliza (Gwinn) 384
Eliza (Mavity) 324
Eliza (Todd) 244
Elizabeth Baker 142, 143
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Vawter, Elizabeth (Caplinger).. . .318 Vawter,
Vawter, Elizabeth (Crawford).. . .324 Vawter,
Vawter, Elizabeth (Grinstead).. . . 131 Vawter,
Vawter, Elizabeth (Irwin) 333 Vawter,
Vawter, Elizabeth ( Kean ) 384 Vawter,
Vawter, Elizabeth (Sinclair) 378 Vawter,
Vawter, Elizabeth (Stewart) 299 Vawter,
Vawter, Elizabeth (Smith) 56 Vawter,
Vawter, Elizabeth (Waters) 315 Vawter,
Vawter, Elizabeth (Watts) 11 Vawter,
Vawter, Emily (Cooprider) 261 Vawter,
Vawter, Emily (Gambill) 280 Vawter,
Vawter, Emma (Damson) 385 Vawter,
Vawter, Emma (Graupner) 1 12 Vawter,
Vawter, Emma (Ketcham ) 69 Vawter,
Vawter, Emma (May) 137 Vawter,
Vawter, Emma (Thomas) 159 Vawter,
Vawter, Ethel (Ransdall) 334 Vawter,
Vawter, Etta (Hill) 333 Vawter,
Vawter, Ettie (Dickerson) 368 Vawter,
Vawter, Eva (Savior) 278 Vawter,
Vawter, Flora (Keith) 326 Vawter,
Vawter, Frances (Ames) 334 Vawter,
Vawter, Frances ( Fatten) 162 Vawter,
Vawter, Frances (Watts) 313 Vawter,
Vawter, Hattie J. (Woodruff) ... .133 Vawter,
Vawter, Helen (Read) 152 Vawter,
Vawter, Huldah (Kendricks) 58 Vawter,
Vawter, Ida (Britton) 162 Vawter,
Vawter, Ida ]\Iay (McCoy) 329 Vawter,
Vawter, Ida (Rahe) 114 Vawter,
Vawter, Ida (Springsteen) 117 Vawter,
Vawter, Isabelle Nelson 126 Vawter,
Vawter, Ivie (McCullough) 282 Vawter,
Vawter, Jane (Leach) 245 Vawter,
Vawter, Jane (Smith) 23 Vawter,
Vawter, Jane (Terrell) 54 Vawter,
Vawter, Jennie (Moore) 73 Vawter,
Vawter, Josephine (Churchwell) . . 118 Vawter,
Vawter, Josie (Willin) 170 Vawter,
Vawter, Josie (Quinn) 170 Vawter,
Vawter, Julia (Davidson) 160 Vawter,
Vawter, Julia (Pack) 383 Vawter,
Vawter, Kate A. (Luty) 112 Vawter.
Vawter, Katherine (Ecker) 283 Vawter,
Vawter, Kittie (Radway) 278 Vawter.
Vawter, Laura (Dixon) 126 Vawter,
Vawter, Laura (Shaddy) 171 Vawter,
Vawter, Laura (Smart) 73 Vawter,
Vawter, Leila Hunter 57 Vawter,
Vawter, Letitia (Smith) 338, 339 Vawter,
Vawter, Lillian (Lepper) 168 Vawter,
Vawter, Lillie (Hibbs) 170 \ awter,
Vawter, Lizzie (Davis) 284 Vawter,
Vawter, Louesa (Bachman) . .158, 159 Vawter,
Vawter, Louisa (Chestnut) 281 Vawter,
Vawter, Louisa (Miller) 281 Vawter,
Vawter, Lucinda (Glover) 363 Vawter,
Vawter, Lucinda (Johnson) 131 Vawter,
441
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Lura (Sanderson) 330
Lydia (Yarrington) 288
Mahala (Sanders) 132
Margaret (Henderson).. .382 ■
Margaret (McAdams).. . .278
Margaret (Ross) 134
Margaret A. (Sawyer)... 73
Maria (Bright) 56
Maria (Dunham) 142
Maria (Graves) 381
]Maria (Lame) 332
Martha (Hess) 282
IMartha (Humphreys) . . . .331
Martha Pearce 23
Alartha (Pyle) i6r
]Martha (Roush) 332
Martha (Smith) 243
Martha (Weir) 364
Mar>' (Adair) 385
Alary (Bright) 283
Marj^ (Brown) 58
Mar>' (Cowell) 168
Mary (Crowder) 119
Mary (Elder) 331
Mary (Durkee) 366
Mary (Furgason) 377
Mary (Helper) 299
Mary (Huxtable) 286
Mary (Mclntyre) 165
Mary (Nichols) 318
Marj^ Nodler 246
Mary (Ravenal) 319
Mary (Rucker) 8
Mary ( Singer) 160
Mar3' (Sparks) 373
Marv (Straughter) 112
Mary (Williams) 329
Mary J. (Williams) 379
Mary (Zane) 288
Matilda (Johnston) 316
Matilda F. Christman. . . .113
Mazelle (Ayrcs) 314
Melissa (Crawford) 380
Minerva (Bromley) 136
Minerva (Ross) 135
]\Iinnie (Bevans) 279
Minnie (Harris) 282
Myrta (Bourne) 377
N. S. Philliper iii
Nancy (Raycroft) 369
Nancy ( Chapman ) 375
Nancy (Johnson) 246
Nancy ( Raycroft ) 369
Nancy (Smith) 375
Nettie (Baber) 384
Nolie (Carter) 367
Pamelia (Dwyer) . . . 109, iii
Pollv (Larimore) 375
Polly (Smith) 23
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442
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Vawter, Rachel (Robinett) 314
Vawter, Rebecca (Mahafy) 67
Vawter, Rose (Smith) 2,77
Vawter, Rosella (Milligan) 245
Vawter, Ruth (Minton) 22,
Vawter, Sallie (Kj'le) Davis 245
Vawter, Sallie (Snyder) 317
Vawter, Sarah (Finley) 2>22)
Vawter, Sarah (Davies) 283
Vawter, Sarah (Foster) 281
Vawter, Sarah ( Hamilton) 279
Vawter, Sarah Alaynard 58
Vawter, Sarah (McClaskey) 124
Vawter, Sarah (McShane) 374
Vawter, Sarah (Pardun) 334
Vawter, Sarah (Parks ) 128
Vawter, Sarah (Snelling) . . . .258-260
Vawter, Sarah (Watts) 156
Vawter, Sarepta (Hamilton) 282
Vawter, Sydney Olive ( Willis) ... 164
Vawter, Spicy (Carroll) 57
Vawter, Stella (Crichlow) 69
Vawter. Sue (Sebree) 168
Vawter, Susan (Conner) 316
Vawter, Susan (Degman) 329
Vawter, Susan (Hollandsworth) . .377
Vawter, Susan (Taylor) 2,72>
Vawter, Sylvia (Hunter) 151
Vawter, Tillie (Nix) 163
Vawter, Valera (Crawford) 380
Vawter, Vesta (Sears) 367
Vawter, Virginia (Longley) 386
Vickers, Lemuel M 368
Victory, A. S 369
Waggoner, George W 225
Waggoner, William 295
Wagner, John H 193
Wagner, Lewis 129
Walden, Elizabeth (Baker) 186
Walden, Emma ( Harper) 186
Walden. James \ 186
Walden, Viola ( Smith) 186
Walker, John M 297
Waltmire, Alexander 285
Waltmire, Dora (Dazell) 285
Ward, Clara (Irwin) 253
Ward, Josie (Walkup) 252
Ward, Willis D 252
Warren, H. E 225
Warren, Nannie (Byrne) 231
Warren, Myrtle (Robinson) 232
Warren, William B 231
Waters, William 185
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Watson, George 291
Waugh, A. H 366
Webb, Elsie (Matthews) 203
Webb, Henry 202
Webb, Mary (Hilton) 202
Webb, Sarah (Brougher) 202
Welch, Robert H 280
Welch. Samuel 279
West, Achilles 356
West, Clara (Clark) 359
West, Elizabeth Blair 358
West, Eva (Grinstead) 358
West, Grace (Millhouse) 359
West, Kate Staples 355
West, Lala (Kuhn) 359
West, Lottie (Staples) 355
West, Mary (Ball) 355
West, Mary (McFarland) 358
West, Martha Clellen 359
West, Martha (Mix) 359
West, Thomas 354
West, Theresia (King) 358
Whitaker, Andrew J 292
Whitcomb Willard 129
White, J. C 370
White, William Walter 226
Whitson, Marsh R 99
Whittemore, Joseph 180
Wilcox, W. W ir6
Williams. Allan 185
Williams. George L 165, 166
Williams, Judson 159
Williams, Smith V 139
Williamson, Elizabeth (Goedeke) .301
Williamson, J. W 300
Wilson, Clarence 183
Wise, Huldah (Hall) 238
Wise. Matthew 238
Wolf, Lilly (Harsh) 236
Wolf, Michael 235
Wolf, Minnie (Corner) 236
Wolf Ufford S 208
Wolfert. Edward F 66
Wood, Edward T 207
Wood, Emerson 71
Wood, Soencer H 72
Wooden, Milton 235
Wright, Charles H 332
Wright, Otho G 135, 136
Yeager, Whitfield 74
Young, J. M. C 222
Young, Robert 383
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